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Variational Typing and Its Applications

Creator:: Chen, Sheng
Abstract:: The study of variational typing originated from the problem of type inference for variational programs, which encode numerous different but related plain programs. In this dissertation, I present a sound and complete type inference algorithm for inferring types of all plain programs encoded in variational programs. The proposed algorithm runs...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Personalizing machine learning systems with explanatory debugging

Creator:: Kulesza, Todd
Abstract:: How can end users efficiently influence the predictions that machine learning systems make on their behalf? Traditional systems rely on users to provide examples of how they want the learning system to behave, but this is not always practical for the user, nor efficient for the learning system. This dissertation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Out of the Mouths of Users : Examining User-Developer Feedback Loops Facilitated by App Stores

Creator:: Bailey, Kendall
Abstract:: Application Stores, such as the iTunes App Store, give developers access to their users’ complaints and requests in the form of application reviews. However, little is known about how developers are responding to application reviews. Without such knowledge developers, users, Application Stores, and researchers could make incorrect assumptions. To address...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Novel approaches to promoting end-user programming

Creator:: Bahmani, Faezeh
Abstract:: End-user programming has become widespread. The increasing size of this population and the prevalence of barriers that they face has sparked the development of approaches that promote end-user programing by helping them overcome barriers and teaching them programming. Despite the fact that these approaches have done well in achieving those...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Mapping Software Development Tool Design to Information Foraging Theory

Creator:: Nabi, Md Tahmid-un
Abstract:: The design of programming tools is slow and costly. To ease this process, we have developed a design pattern catalog aimed at providing guidance about how to design tools for developers. This guidance is grounded in Information Foraging Theory (IFT), which empirical studies have shown to be useful for understanding...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Managing bug reports in free/open source software (FOSS) communities

Creator:: Mohan, Nitin
Abstract:: Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) communities often use open bug reporting to allow users to participate by reporting bugs. This practice can lead to more duplicate reports, as inexperienced users can be less rigorous about researching existing bug reports. The purpose of this research is to determine the extent of this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Information Foraging Theory as a Unifying Foundation for Software Engineering Research : Connecting the Dots

Creator:: Piorkowski, David
Abstract:: Empirical studies have shown that programmers spend up to one-third of their time navigating through code during debugging. Although researchers have conducted empirical studies to understand programmers’ navigation difficulties and developed tools to address those difficulties, the resulting findings tend to be loosely connected to each other. To address this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Empirical study - pairwise prediction of fault based on coverage

Creator:: Shamasunder, Shalini
Abstract:: Researchers/engineers in the field of software testing have valued coverage as a testing metric for decades now. There have been various empirical results that have shown that as coverage increases the ability of the test program to detect a fault also increases. As a result numerous coverage techniques have been...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Eliciting informal specifications from scientific modelers for evaluation and debugging

Creator:: Bogart, Christopher
Abstract:: Professional software engineers have an arsenal of techniques such as unit testing and assertions to check their specifications, but these techniques require tools, motivation, experience and training that programmers without professional software engineering training may not have. As a result, professionals in other fields, such as scientific modelers, face greater...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Detecting bad smells in spreadsheets

Creator:: Asavametha, Atipol
Abstract:: Spreadsheets are a widely used end-user programming tool. Field audits have found that 80-90% of spreadsheets created by end users contain textual and formula errors in spreadsheets. Such errors may have severe negative consequences for users in terms of productivity, credibility, or profits. To solve the problem of spreadsheet errors,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Variational Typing and Its Applications

Personalizing machine learning systems with explanatory debugging

Out of the Mouths of Users : Examining User-Developer Feedback Loops Facilitated by App Stores

Novel approaches to promoting end-user programming

Mapping Software Development Tool Design to Information Foraging Theory

Managing bug reports in free/open source software (FOSS) communities

Information Foraging Theory as a Unifying Foundation for Software Engineering Research : Connecting the Dots

Empirical study - pairwise prediction of fault based on coverage

Eliciting informal specifications from scientific modelers for evaluation and debugging

Detecting bad smells in spreadsheets

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