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Workshop report : from end-user programming to end-user software engineering (a CHI'06) Workshop)

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  • End users create software when they use spreadsheet systems, web authoring tools and graphical languages, and when they create educational simulations, macros-by-demonstration, and dynamic e-business web applications and mash-ups. Some end-user developers, such as accountants or teachers, may have no formal training at all in programming. Others, such as scientists or sysadmins, may have significant background in programming, but they still do not see their goals as producing software: rather, they see software as a means to some other goal, such as visualizing a scientific phenomenon or getting a computer set up so that it can talk to the printers in the building. It has become well known that errors are pervasive in end-user software, and the resulting impact is sometimes enormous. A growing number of researchers and developers are working on ways to make the software created by end users more reliable, by looking beyond the "create" aspect of the software lifecycle. The WEUSE workshop (Workshop on End-User Software Engineering), organized by Margaret Burnett, Brad Myers, Mary Beth Rosson, and Susan Wiedenbeck for CHI'06, brought together academic and industrial researchers who are addressing this topic with industry representatives who are deploying end-user programming systems. The objective was to facilitate sharing of real-world problems and solutions. Four real-world end-user software engineering issues formed the focus of the CHI'06 workshop: extending an open source paradigm for end-user developers of MATLAB programs, helping disparate audiences learn to use the Flash end-user programming product, dealing with mission-critical aspects of end-user programming situations that occur in customization of healthcare systems, and supporting the high-pressure development done by sysadmins.
  • Keywords: End-user software engineering, End-user programming
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  • The organizational work for this workshop was supported in part by the EUSES Consortium under NSF Grant ITR-0325273 / 0324861 / 0324770 / 0324844 / 0405612.
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