Six challenges in supporting end-user debugging

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on End-User Software Engineering, WEUSE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ruthruff, Joseph R ^a   Burnett, Margaret ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Debugging; End user programming; End user software engineering; Fault localization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER DEBUGGING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DEBUGGING EFFORTS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; END USER PROGRAMMERS; END USER PROGRAMMING; END USERS; END-USER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; FAULT LOCALIZATION;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 79952418605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1083231.1083244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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