Males' and females' script debugging strategies

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5435 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 205-224

  Grigoreanu, Valentina ^a,b   Brundage, James ^b   Bahna, Eric ^b   Burnett, Margaret ^a   Elrif, Paul ^b   Snover, Jeffrey ^b  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Debugging; Debugging Strategies; Gender; Scripting

Indexed keywords

DEBUGGERS; DEBUGGING; DEBUGGING STRATEGIES; GENDER; GENDER DIFFERENCES; IT PROFESSIONALS; LITTLE RESEARCHES; SCRIPTING; TOOL DESIGNERS;

SPREADSHEETS;

EID: 63449118321     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00427-8_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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