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  • An investigation of the on-line debugging process of expert and novice student programmers

    Creator:
    Nanja, Murthi
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    Debugging, the process of locating and correcting errors in a computer program, is a common programming task that is not well understood. Of the several debugging studies reported in the literature, most compared the performance differences between expert and novice programmers by measuring their debug time and the number of...
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    Dissertation
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    Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science presented on January 18. 1988. Title: An Investigation of the

  • 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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    degree of Master of Sciencein Computer Science presented on July 23, 2004. Title: Interactive Fault

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

  • 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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    Master of Science in Computer Science presented on 2/26/2004 Title: Effects of Interruption-Style on End

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Faezeh Bahmani for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science

  • Eliciting informal specifications from scientific modelers for evaluation and debugging

    Creator:
    Bogart, Christopher
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    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...
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    Dissertation
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    degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science presented on June 7, 2013. Title: Eliciting

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    Nitin Mohan for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on March 9, 2012

  • Explaining debugging strategies to end-user programmers

    Creator:
    Subrahmaniyan, Neeraja
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    There has been little research into how end-user programming environments can provide explanations that could fill a critical information gap for end-user debuggers – help with debugging strategy. To address this need, we designed and prototyped a video-based approach for explaining debugging strategy, and accompanied it with a text-only approach....
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    Masters Thesis
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    Computer Science presented on September 12, 2007. Title: Explaining Debugging Strategies to End-User

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    OF Cory Kissinger for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on May 19

  • Variational Typing and Its Applications

    Creator:
    Chen, Sheng
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    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...
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    Dissertation
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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Sheng Chen for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science