An empirical study of fault localization for end-user programmers

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 352-361

  Ruthruff, Joseph R ^a   Burnett, Margaret ^b   Rothermel, Gregg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Debugging; End user programming; End user software engineering; Fault localization

Indexed keywords

END USER DEBUGGING; END USER PROGRAMMING; END USER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; FAULT LOCALIZATION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FILE EDITORS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPREADSHEETS; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33244466497     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2005.1553578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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