VL
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
We report on a field study about how software developers experience disorientation when using the Eclipse Java integrated development environment. We analyzed the data using the ...
VL
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
In this paper we present a system that helps users test their spreadsheets using automatically generated test cases. The system generates the test cases by backward propagation an...
VL
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Many end user programming tools lack adequate support for domain-specific data. We will design a lightweight representation for categories of data, called “topes,” and develop...
VL
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
As software systems grow in size and use more third-party libraries and frameworks, the need for developers to understand unfamiliar large codebases is rapidly increasing. In this...
VL
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Reality-based interfaces (RBIs) offer the promise of natural interfaces that are intuitive to use. By allowing users to leverage their innate skills and knowledge about the real-p...
VL
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Web development is rapidly becoming a routine activity for informal as well as professional software developers. One variable that distinguished segments of this population was th...
VL
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
There is little understanding of how people describe software problems, but a variety of tools solicit, manage, and analyze these descriptions in order to streamline software deve...
VL
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Traditional approaches to teaching computer science are often unsuccessful in attracting girls into the discipline. Our hypothesis is that presenting computer programming as a mea...
VL
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Because software libraries are numerous and large, learning how to use them is a common and problematic task for experienced programmers and novices alike. Internet search engines...
VL
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Although researchers have developed several ways to reason about the location of faults in spreadsheets, no single form of reasoning is without limitations. Multiple types of erro...