On the empirical evaluation of fault localization techniques for spreadsheets

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

Volumn 7793 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 68-82

  Hofer, Birgit ^a   Riboira, André ^b   Wotawa, Franz ^a   Abreu, Rui ^b   Getzner, Elisabeth ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

End User debugging; model based debugging; spectrum based fault localization; spreadsheets

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT-BASED; DEBUGGING SUPPORT; DYNAMIC SLICING; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; END USERS; FAULT LOCALIZATION; HARD TASK; MODEL-BASED DEBUGGING; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPREADSHEETS;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 84874359817     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37057-1_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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