Spreadsheet debugging behaviour of expert and novice end-users

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 56-60

  Bishop, Brian ^a   McDaid, Kevin ^a  

^a DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

End user programming; Spreadsheet debugging

Indexed keywords

COBALT; DATA RECORDING; ERROR CORRECTION; ERROR DETECTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPREADSHEETS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; DEBUGGING TOOLS; END-USER PROGRAMMING; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; EXPERT AND NOVICES; LITTLE RESEARCHES; SPREADSHEET ERRORS; SPREADSHEET PROGRAMS; TESTING AND DEBUGGING; USER BEHAVIOURS; VBA TOOLS;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 57049128318     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370847.1370860     Document Type: Conference Paper

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