developer experience

noun

A developer's feeling about their tools, processes, constrains etc, and how it impacts productivity.

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Meanings

noundeveloper experience (countable and uncountable, plural developer experiences)

plural developer experiences

  1. countableuncountablecomputingA developer's feeling about their tools, processes, constrains etc, and how it impacts productivity.

    Yet another facet of your developer experience is this ability to deploy your application in a multitude of different environments.

    2015, Zachariah Moreno, AngularJS Deployment Essentials, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 125
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    In this paper, we discuss developer experience in terms of user experience (UX) and as a distinct concept and developers' needs as IDE users.

    2015, Pekka Abrahamsson, Luis Corral, Markku Oivo, Barbara Russo, Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 16th International Conference, PROFES 2015, Bolzano, Italy, December 2-4, 2015, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 547

    Synonyms: DevEx

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA developer's feeling about their tools, processes, constrains etc, and how it impacts productivity.

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