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Developer experience research and spec development
Breakout session
François Daoust
★ W3C TPAC 2023, Seville, 11–15 September ★
Agenda
- Pick a scribe
- Reminders: code of conduct and other policies
- Goal of this session
- Context (TPAC 2022, WebDX CG, surveys)
- Discussion
- Next steps / Where discussion continues
Goal of this session
- Briefly present available developer research data
- Exchange on ideas to provide developer research as a service for groups
- Collect possible requests for data on specific features
TPAC 2022
“What would make the research more impactful?”
WebDX CG
Goals of the research workstream:
- Driving broad research on web platform to create shared understanding of developer needs
- Driving in-depth research on specific topics to generate actionable insights
- Providing developer research as a service for SDOs to accelerate and improve decision making
Collaboration with surveys
Group may provide input to surveys, review and/or publish results, e.g.:
Developer research as a service
- How to integrate developer research in standardization groups processes?
- What timeline are groups looking for when considering a survey?
- What guidelines may be needed?
- How can the WebDX CG collaborate with groups?
- Are short surveys useful means?
- What are features or designs that you would like dev feedback on?
To develop features and discuss alternative designs, standardization groups often ponder the needs of web app developers. To collect feedback from developers, ad-hoc mechanisms are being used, including:
Could more systematic developer research be conducted and made available to groups when they need it? The WebDX Community Group proposes this breakout session to discuss providing developer research as a service in standardization groups and collect requests for research data that groups may need.
For additional background, the WebDX Community Group, created last year, conducts research to make available quantitative and qualitative data to all aspects of the web platform feature life cycle. Current research data is the result of MDN short surveys and contributions to existing survey programs.