Do Design Rules Have an Impact on the Understandability of RESTful APIs? A Web-Based Experiment with API Descriptions

This repository contains materials of a controlled experiment with 105 participants that studied the impact of design rules on the understandability of RESTful APIs. The following materials are provided: The data set (<code>results.csv</code>) with a description (<code>data-set-description.md</code>) The cleaning protocol (<code>data-cleaning-protocol.md</code>) The R analysis script (<code>analysis.R</code>) The two OpenAPI documents used as the foundation for the experiment Adhering to the rules: <code>openapi-rules.yaml</code> Violating the rules: <code>openapi-violations.yaml</code>