Using spoken text to aid debugging: An empirical study

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 110-119

  Stefik, Andreas ^a   Gellenbeck, Ed ^a  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUES; AUDITORY STIMULI; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEBUGGERS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PROGRAM EXECUTION; VISUAL STIMULUS;

COMPUTER DEBUGGING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; VERIFICATION; WEB SERVICES;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 70349983594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2009.5090034     Document Type: Article

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