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ISESE
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An empirical evaluation of a testing and debugging methodology for Excel
Spreadsheets are one of the most commonly used types of programs in the world, and it is important that they be sufficiently dependable. To help end users who create spreadsheets ...
Jeffrey Carver, Marc Fisher II, Gregg Rothermel
CHI
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Testing vs. code inspection vs. what else?: male and female end users' debugging strategies
Little is known about the strategies end-user programmers use in debugging their programs, and even less is known about gender differences that may exist in these strategies. With...
Neeraja Subrahmaniyan, Laura Beckwith, Valentina G...
ICSE
2004
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Validating the Unit Correctness of Spreadsheet Programs
Financial companies, engineering firms and even scientists create increasingly larger spreadsheets and spreadsheet programs. The creators of large spreadsheets make errors and mus...
Tudor Antoniu, Paul A. Steckler, Shriram Krishnamu...
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Harnessing curiosity to increase correctness in end-user programming
Despite their ability to help with program correctness, assertions have been notoriously unpopular--even with professional programmers. End-user programmers seem even less likely ...
Aaron Wilson, Margaret M. Burnett, Laura Beckwith,...
ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Automatic generation and maintenance of correct spreadsheets
Existing spreadsheet systems allow users to change cells arbitrarily, which is a major source of spreadsheet errors. We propose a system that prevents errors in spreadsheets by re...
Martin Erwig, Robin Abraham, Irene Cooperstein, St...