Strategies and behaviors of end-user programmers with interactive fault localization

Proceedings - 2003 IEEE Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, HCC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 15-22

  Prabhakararao, S ^a   Cook, C ^a   Ruthruff, J ^a   Creswick, E ^a   Main, M ^a   Durham, M ^a   Burnett, M ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBUGGING PROCESS; END USER PROGRAMMERS; END USERS; FAULT LOCALIZATION; HUMAN-CENTRIC; LARGE PARTS;

FORTH (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84878365410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HCC.2003.1260197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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