Effectiveness of end-user debugging software features: Are there gender issues?

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 869-878

  Beckwith, Laura ^a   Burnett, Margaret ^a   Wiedenbeck, Susan ^b   Cook, Curtis ^a   Sorte, Shraddha ^a   Hastings, Michelle ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Debugging; End user programming; End user software engineering; Gender; Surprise Explain Reward

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

END-USER PROGRAMMING; END-USER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; GENDER; SURPRISE-EXPLAIN-REWARD;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84861297542     PISSN: 02749696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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