WYSIWYT testing in the spreadsheet paradigm: An empirical evaluation

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 230-239

  Rothermel, Karen J ^a   Cook, Curtis R ^a   Burnett, Margaret M ^a   Schonfeld, Justin ^a   Green, T R G ^b   Rothermel, Gregg ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPREADSHEET LANGUAGE; VISUAL PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; SPREADSHEETS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033683097     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2000.870414     Document Type: Article

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