Sharing reasoning about faults in spreadsheets: An empirical study

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 35-42

  Lawrance, Joseph ^a   Abraham, Robin ^a   Burnett, Margaret ^a   Erwig, Martin ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL RESULTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; END USER PROGRAMMERS; FAULT LOCALIZATION; LOCATION OF FAULT; REASONING SYSTEM; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

ERRORS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; VISUALIZATION;

SPREADSHEETS;

EID: 56349118573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2006.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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