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Garbage in, Garbage out? An Empirical Look at Oracle Mistakes by End-User Programmers

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VLHCC '05: Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

Pages 45 - 52

https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2005.40

Published: 20 September 2005 Publication History

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End-user programmers, because they are human, make mistakes. However, past research has not considered how visual end-user debugging devices could be designed to ameliorate the effects of mistakes. This paper empirically examines oracle mistakes mistakes users make about which values are right and which are wrong to reveal differences in how different types of oracle mistakes impact the quality of visual feedback about bugs. We then consider the implications of these empirical results for designers of end-user software engineering environments.

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Holmes JGroce APinto JMittal PAzimi PKellar KO'brien J(2018)TSTLInternational Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)10.1007/s10009-016-0445-y20:1(57-78)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10009-016-0445-y
Grigoreanu VBurnett MWiedenbeck SCao JRector KKwan I(2012)End-user debugging strategiesACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/2147783.214778819:1(1-28)Online publication date: 4-May-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2147783.2147788
Ko AAbraham RBeckwith LBlackwell ABurnett MErwig MScaffidi CLawrance JLieberman HMyers BRosson MRothermel GShaw MWiedenbeck S(2011)The state of the art in end-user software engineeringACM Computing Surveys10.1145/1922649.192265843:3(1-44)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1922649.1922658
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Garbage in, Garbage out? An Empirical Look at Oracle Mistakes by End-User Programmers
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Visual languages

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September 2005

304 pages

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10009-016-0445-y
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