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  • Toward end-user debugging of machine-learned programs

    Creator:
    Kulesza, Todd
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    The results of a machine learning from user behavior can be thought of as a program, and like all programs, it may need to be debugged. Providing ways for the user to debug it matters because without the ability to fix errors, users may find that the learned program’s errors...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Todd Kulesza for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science

  • Supporting end-user debugging

    Creator:
    Kissinger, Cory
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    Although researchers have begun to explicitly support end-user programmers’ debugging by providing information to help them find bugs, there is little research addressing the right content to communicate to these users. The specific semantic content of these debugging communications matters because, if the users are not actually seeking the information...
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    OF Cory Kissinger for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on May 19

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

    Creator:
    Bailey, Kendall
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    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...
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    of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on December 8, 2015. Title: Out of the Mouths of

  • Novel approaches to promoting end-user programming

    Creator:
    Bahmani, Faezeh
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    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...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Faezeh Bahmani for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science

  • Mapping Software Development Tool Design to Information Foraging Theory

    Creator:
    Nabi, Md Tahmid-un
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    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...
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    Md Tahmid-un Nabi for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on May 26, 2016

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

    Creator:
    Mohan, Nitin
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    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...
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    Nitin Mohan for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on March 9, 2012

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

    Creator:
    Ruthruff, Joseph Ronald
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    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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    degree of Master of Sciencein Computer Science presented on July 23, 2004. Title: Interactive Fault

  • Generalizing the Idea Garden : Principles and Contexts

    Creator:
    Jernigan, William
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    In previous work, the Idea Garden was created to help those relatively new to programming overcome their barriers in CoScripter. The goal of this thesis was to generalize the Idea Garden's success to other users and environments. We present a set of principles on how to help EUPs like this...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF William Jernigan for the degree of Master of Science in Computer

  • 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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Vaishnavi Narayanan for the degree of Master of Science in Computer

  • 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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Amit D Phalgune for the degree of Master of Science in Computer