Visually testing recursive programs in spreadsheet languages

2001 IEEE Symposium on Human-Centric Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 288-295

  Burnett, Margaret ^a   Ren, Bing ^a   Ko, Andrew ^a   Cook, Curtis ^a   Rothermel, Gregg ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPREADSHEETS; VISUALIZATION;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0035791336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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