End-user programmers are writing an unprecedented number of programs, due in large
part to the significant effort put forth to bring programming power to end users.
Unfortunately, this effort has not been supplemented by a comparable effort to increase
the correctness of these often faulty programs. To address this need, we have been
working towards bringing fault localization techniques to end users. In order to understand
how end users are affected by and interact with such techniques, we conducted a
think-aloud study, examining the interactive, human-centric ties between end-user
debugging and a fault localization technique for the spreadsheet paradigm. Our results
provide insights into the contributions such techniques can make to an interactive end-user
debugging process. / Graduation date: 2004
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/31594 |
| Date | 03 December 2003 |
| Creators | Prabhakararao, Shreenivasarao |
| Contributors | Cook, Curtis R. |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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