Browsing Technical Reports (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) by Subject "Testing and Debugging"

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Gender differences in end-user debugging strategies

Oregon State University. Dept. of Computer Science; Beckwith, Laura A.; Grigoreanu, Valentina I.; Subrahmaniyan, Neeraja; Wiedenbeck, Susan; Burnett, Margaret, 1947-; Cook, Curtis R.; Bucht, Karin; Drummond, Russell (Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University, Dept. of Computer Science, 2007-02-26)

Little is known about the strategies end-user programmers use in debugging their programs, and even less is known about gender differences that may exist in these strategies. Without this type of information, end-user pr ...
The whats and hows of programmers' foraging diets

Oregon State University. Dept. of Computer Science; Piorkowski, David; Fleming, Scott D.; Kwan, Irwin; Burnett, Margaret, 1949-; Scaffidi, Chris; Bellamy, Rachel; Jordhal, Joshua (Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University, Dept. of Computer Science, 2013-01-11)

One of the least studied areas of Information Foraging Theory is diet: the information foragers choose to seek. For example, do foragers choose solely based on cost, or do they stubbornly pursue certain diets regardle ...