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  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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

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

  • Empirical study - pairwise prediction of fault based on coverage

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    Shamasunder, Shalini
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    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...
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    degree of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on June 14, 2012. Title: Empirical Study

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Complex patterns in gender HCI : a data mining study of factors leading to end-user debugging success for females and males

    Creator:
    Grigoreanu, Valentina I.
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    Most of the work so far in the subfield of Gender HCI has followed a theory-driven approach. Established theories, however, do not take into account specific issues that arise in end-user debugging. We suspected that there may be important information that we were overlooking. We therefore employed a methodology change:...
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    OF THE THESIS OF Valentina Grigoreanu for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science

  • Detecting bad smells in spreadsheets

    Creator:
    Asavametha, Atipol
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    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,...
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    THESIS OF Atipol Asavametha for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on

  • 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

  • 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