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IEEE 2002 Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'02)
Assertions in End-User Software Engineering: A Think-Aloud Study
Arlington, Virginia, USA
September 03-September 06
ISBN: 0-7695-1644-0
Christine Wallace, Oregon State University
Curtis Cook, Oregon State University
Jay Summet, Oregon State University
Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University
There has been little research on end-user program development beyond the programming phase. Devising ways to address additional phases may be critical, because research shows that over one-half of the programs written by end users, at least in the widely used spreadsheet paradigm, contain errors. In this paper, we investigate whether providing end users with integrated support for requirement specifications in the form of assertions can help them reason about, recognize, and remove errors in their spreadsheets. Our think-aloud study revealed that end users can indeed use assertions to find and correct errors as they work with their spreadsheets, and also revealed some surprising tendencies and biases about testing.
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Christine Wallace, Curtis Cook, Jay Summet, Margaret Burnett, "Assertions in End-User Software Engineering: A Think-Aloud Study," hcc, pp.63, IEEE 2002 Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'02), 2002
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