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 ...
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...
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...
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,...
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...