End-User Software Visualizations for Fault Localization

Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 123-132

  Ruthruff, J ^a   Creswick, E ^a   Burnett, M ^a   Cook, C ^a   Prabhakararao, S ^a   Fisher II, M ^a   Main, M ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

End user programming; End user software engineering; End user software visualization; Fault localization; Spreadsheets

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; VISUALIZATION;

FAULT LOCALIZATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0141998620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/774849.774851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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