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Assertions in End-User Software Engineering: A Think-Aloud Study

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Christine Wallace,

Curtis Cook,

Jay Summet,

Margaret BurnettAuthors Info & Claims

HCC '02: Proceedings of the IEEE 2002 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'02)

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Published: 03 September 2002 Publication History

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There has been little research on end-user program development beyond the programming phase. Devising ways to address additional phases may be critical, because research shows that over one-half of the programs written by end users, at least in the widely used spreadsheet paradigm, contain errors. In this paper, we investigate whether providing end users with integrated support for requirement specifications in the form of assertions can help them reason about, recognize, and remove errors in their spreadsheets. Our think-aloud study revealed that end users can indeed use assertions to find and correct errors as they work with their spreadsheets, and also revealed some surprising tendencies and biases about testing.

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Burnett MCook CPendse ORothermel GSummet JWallace CClarke LDillon LTichy W(2003)End-user software engineering with assertions in the spreadsheet paradigmProceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering10.5555/776816.776828(93-103)Online publication date: 3-May-2003
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/776816.776828

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HCC '02: Proceedings of the IEEE 2002 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'02)

September 2002

ISBN:0769516440

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Souza IDa Silva Gomes GDa Mota Silveira Neto PDo Carmo Machado IDe Almeida EDe Lemos Meira S(2013)Evidence of software inspection on feature specification for software product linesJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2012.11.04486:5(1172-1190)Online publication date: 1-May-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2012.11.044
Fleming SKraemer EStirewalt RXie SDillon LSchäfer WDwyer MGruhn V(2008)A study of student strategies for the corrective maintenance of concurrent softwareProceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering10.1145/1368088.1368195(759-768)Online publication date: 15-May-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1368088.1368195
Burnett MCook CPendse ORothermel GSummet JWallace CClarke LDillon LTichy W(2003)End-user software engineering with assertions in the spreadsheet paradigmProceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering10.5555/776816.776828(93-103)Online publication date: 3-May-2003
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/776816.776828

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