A strategy-centric approach to the design of end-user debugging tools

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 713-722

  Grigoreanu, Valentina I ^a,b   Burnett, Margaret M ^b   Robertson, George G ^c  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

debugging strategies; debugging tools; end user software engineering; tool design

Indexed keywords

DEBUGGING TOOLS; DESIGN APPROACHES; DESIGN GUIDELINES; END USER PROGRAMMERS; END USERS; END-USER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TOOL DESIGNS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SPREADSHEETS;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 77954016132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753431     Document Type: Conference Paper

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