TY - GEN
T1 - Supporting end-user debugging
T2 - AVI '06 - Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2006
AU - Kissinger, Cory
AU - Burnett, Margaret
AU - Stumpf, Simone
AU - Subrahmaniyan, Neeraja
AU - Beckwith, Laura
AU - Yang, Sherry
AU - Rosson, Mary Beth
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Although researchers have begun to explicitly support end-user programmers' debugging by providing information to help them find bugs, there is little research addressing the right content to communicate to these users. The specific semantic content of these debugging communications matters because, if the users are not actually seeking the information the system is providing, they are not likely to attend to it. This paper reports a formative empirical study that sheds light on what end users actually want to know in the course of debugging a spreadsheet, given the availability of a set of interactive visual testing and debugging features. Our results provide insights into end-user debuggers' information gaps, and further suggest opportunities to improve end-user debugging systems' support for the things end-user debuggers actually want to know.
AB - Although researchers have begun to explicitly support end-user programmers' debugging by providing information to help them find bugs, there is little research addressing the right content to communicate to these users. The specific semantic content of these debugging communications matters because, if the users are not actually seeking the information the system is providing, they are not likely to attend to it. This paper reports a formative empirical study that sheds light on what end users actually want to know in the course of debugging a spreadsheet, given the availability of a set of interactive visual testing and debugging features. Our results provide insights into end-user debuggers' information gaps, and further suggest opportunities to improve end-user debugging systems' support for the things end-user debuggers actually want to know.
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U2 - 10.1145/1133265.1133293
DO - 10.1145/1133265.1133293
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34247139625
SN - 1595933530
SN - 9781595933539
T3 - Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces
SP - 135
EP - 142
BT - Proceedings of the AVI '06 - Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2006
Y2 - 23 May 2006 through 26 May 2006
ER -