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

    Creator:
    Athreya, Balaji
    Abstract:
    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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    : ______________________________________________________ Christopher Scaffidi Software maintenance tasks often require finding information

  • End-user programming tool for creating custom health surveys with automatically generated reports

    Creator:
    Krishnamurthy, Pratik
    Abstract:
    Online survey data collection is becoming popular because it provides benefits in cost, ease of collecting and managing data, flexibility in format, and access to a diverse population. Surveys are often used for health studies such as Oregon State University’s WAVE Project, which utilizes the WavePipe system, a server enabling...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    Christopher Scaffidi Online survey data collection is becoming popular because it provides benefits in cost

  • Comfort Food

    Creator:
    Rahman, Ridwana
    Abstract:
    When my mother’s mother sent her over to the new, western world, she sent her with a suitcase full of spices you couldn’t find at an American grocery store in the 90’s: tamarind and turmeric, coriander root and cumin. Ammu, my mother, had truly packed her entire life and everything...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    ____________________________________________________________________________________ Christopher Johns, Committee Member, Representing Art Department

  • 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
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Christopher P. Scaffidi The

  • 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
    Full Text:
    Performance Problems in Visual Code Abstract approved: Christopher P. Scaffidi End-user programmers

  • 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
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    : ______________________________________________________ Christopher P Scaffidi Spreadsheets are a widely used end-user programming tool

  • Scootr Studio: Serverless on Wheels

    Creator:
    Hitchcock, Braden S.
    Abstract:
    Significant increases in the amount of data being streamed, collected, and processed have resulted in widespread adoption of the use of microservices to build scalable software applications. Unfortunately, current tools and frameworks are often insufficient at providing a simple, unified experience for the design, development, and deployment of microservices. They...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project

  • 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
    Full Text:
    Modelers for Evaluation and Debugging AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Christopher Bogart for the

  • The InclusiveMag Method: A Start Towards More Inclusive Software for Diverse Populations

    Creator:
    Mendez, Christopher
    Abstract:
    How can software practitioners assess whether their software supports diverse users? Although there are empirical processes that can be used to find “inclusivity bugs” piecemeal, what is often needed is a systematic inspection method to assess software’s support for diverse populations. To help fill this gap, this thesis introduces InclusiveMag,...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Christopher Mendez for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on March 2, 2020

  • Dimension checking tools for spreadsheets

    Creator:
    Chambers, Chris (Christopher Willie)
    Abstract:
    We present the evolution of a reasoning system for inferring dimension information in spreadsheets. The three papers included in this thesis show how the initial system can be used to check the consistency of spreadsheet formulas and thus is able to detect errors in spreadsheets, and the evolution to a...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis