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Re:What Makes Code Hard to Understand? by Finster on Thursday April 25, 2013 @12:30PM (#5608144)
> I agree, and I was astounded when I found out they had never done an end to end study of how people use Visual Studio while I was at MSFT.

As someone who uses Visual Studio everyday, I am not surprised by this at all. Don't get me wrong, Visual Studio is one of the best IDE's out there, but sometimes it's inspite of itself.

Like removing functionality from the Text Explorer in VS 2012, which they have finally been patching back in. Dumb, dumb, dumb. If they HAD end-to-end user testing, they never would've remove the functionality in the first place.

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Re:What Makes Code Hard to Understand? by ibdknox on Thursday April 25, 2013 @01:07PM (#5608413)
FWIW, while I was there I ran the first end-to-end usability study. It was... enlightening :)
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Re:What Makes Code Hard to Understand? by frozenport on Thursday April 25, 2013 @02:25PM (#5608964)
Wow, what did you learn?
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