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  • Interactive fault localization techniques to empower the debugging efforts of end-user programmers

    Creator:
    Ruthruff, Joseph Ronald
    Abstract:
    End users develop more software than any other group of programmers, using software authoring devices such as e-mail filtering editors, by-demonstration macro builders, and spreadsheet environments. Despite this, there has been only a little research on finding ways to help these programmers with the dependability of the software they create....
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    Masters Thesis
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    localization techniques. c Copyright By Joseph Ronald Ruthruff July 23, 2004 All Rights Reserved

  • Information foraging in debugging

    Creator:
    Lawrance, Joseph A.
    Abstract:
    Programmers spend a substantial fraction of their debugging time by navigating through source code, yet little is known about how programmers navigate. With the continuing growth in size and complexity of software, this fraction of time is likely to increase, which presents challenges to those seeking both to understand and...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Joseph Lawrance for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Garbage in, garbage out? An empirical look at oracle mistakes by end-user programmers

    Creator:
    Phalgune, Amit
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    End-user programmers, because they are human, make mistakes. However, past research has not considered how visual end-user debugging devices could be designed to ameliorate the effects of mistakes. This paper empirically examines oracle mistakes mistakes users make about which values are right and which are wrong to reveal differences in...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Cory Kissinger, Dr. Margaret Burnett, Laura Beckwith, Dr. Curtis Cook and Joseph Ruthruff. I would

  • End user software engineering features for both genders

    Creator:
    Sorte, Shraddha
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    Previous research has revealed gender differences that impact females’ willingness to adopt software features in end users’ programming environments. Since these features have separately been shown to help end users problem solve, it is important to female end users’ productivity that we find ways to make these features more acceptable...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , respectively [Rothermel et al. 2001; Ruthruff et al. 2005]. Besides the checkmarks and X-marks, there are

  • Effects of interruption-style on end-user programmers

    Creator:
    Robertson, T. J. (Thomas James)
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    This thesis presents the results of two studies that investigate the question of what interruption-styles are most appropriate for end-user programmers who are debugging programs. In the studies, end-user programmers are presented with surprises that encourage them to investigate, use, and learn about debugging devices in their programming environment. We...
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    Masters Thesis
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    brainstorming, statistical analysis, and writing part of the first paper Joseph R. Ruthruff helped administer

  • Gender HCI issues in end-user programming

    Creator:
    Beckwith, Laura A.
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    Until recently, research has not considered whether the design of end-user programming environments, such as spreadsheets, multimedia authoring languages, and CAD systems, affects males and females differently. As a result, we began investigating how the two genders are impacted by end-user programming software and whether attention to gender differences is...
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    Dissertation
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    Subrahmaniyan, Cory Kissinger, Joseph Lawrance, Thippaya Chintakovid, and Robin Abraham for words of wisdom

  • Towards helping end-user programmers’ information foraging by manipulating information features in a patch

    Creator:
    Athreya, Balaji
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    Software maintenance tasks often require finding information within existing code, which is time-consuming and difficult even for professional programmers. For example, programmers may need to know what code implements certain functionality or what is the purpose of certain code. In response, researchers have developed tools to help programmers find information...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    Preece, Joseph Jess, Laurel, Nicole, Padma, Palitha, Rajani, Tina, Tracey, Vindhya and the members

  • Gender differences in end-user debugging strategies

    Creator:
    Narayanan, Vaishnavi
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    There has been little prior research reporting strategy usage in end-user problem solving, and even less using gender as a factor. Without this type of information, enduser programming systems cannot know the “target” at which to aim, if they are to support male and female end-user programmers’ debugging. As a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    top of the spreadsheet [Ruthruff et al. 2004]. The features are also based on the Attention

  • Variations Foraging

    Creator:
    Srinivasa Ragavan, Sruti
    Abstract:
    Information Foraging Theory (IFT) has successfully explained how people seek information in various domains, in turn, informing the design of several tools and information-intensive environments. However, prior research has not explored foraging in the presence of several, very similar variants of the same artifact. Such variants are commonplace in several...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Helping end-user programmers find and fix performance problems in visual code

    Creator:
    Chambers, Chris
    Abstract:
    End-user programmers often struggle to create programs that run quickly and effectively, which can be a major deterrent in completing their tasks as desired. Current research has primarily focused on catching user mistakes, such as errors or misused formulas. However, end users deal with issues other than just correctness. In...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation