Growth of software framework usability and its effects on software engineering

Abstract

The researcher found that few study measures the growth of software usability and its effects, so we want to measure it and then try to improve on our software development industry. The purpose of the study is to find out the growth of software framework . usability and its effects software engineering or development with respect to computer programming. A descriptive survey study was employed. The targeted population (277) for this study covers the final years computer science or information technology masters’ students in five public universities in Ghana and two software companies (Gracecoms – programmers and Kologsoft – programmers). The sample size was 249 students’ software developers. The questionnaire tool was used to collect data. The data had been gathered through MS Excel then exported to the Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) for analyses. The analyses measure the association between socio-demographic and other related variables in the survey by using frequencies, percentage mean and standard deviation. The study found that there is very high/ high 60% (n= 149) level of growth of software framework usability in software engineering. And the popular software frameworks use was bootstrap 32.1% (n=80) and flutter 26.1% (n=65). Secondly, the study found that the most leading cause students and software developer identified is: It is faster to develop a system with framework than pure coding with the highest mean score of (means = 2.67 std = 0.64) respectively. Lastly, the study found that even though effect of Software Framework usability contributed significantly to the statements, there is a positive relationship between effect of Software Framework usability and the software development to a large extent.