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End-user software visualizations for fault localization
2003
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Software visualization - SoftVis '03
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Towards this end, we have devised several fault localization visualization techniques for spreadsheets. ...
We would like to integrate software visualization into these end-user environments to help end users deal with the reliability issues in their programs. ...
Acknowledgments We thank the Visual Programming Research Group at Oregon State University for their feedback and help. This work was supported in part by NSF under ITR-0082265. ...
doi:10.1145/774833.774851
dblp:conf/softvis/RuthruffCBCPFM03
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End-user software visualizations for fault localization
2003
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Software visualization - SoftVis '03
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Towards this end, we have devised several fault localization visualization techniques for spreadsheets. ...
We would like to integrate software visualization into these end-user environments to help end users deal with the reliability issues in their programs. ...
Acknowledgments We thank the Visual Programming Research Group at Oregon State University for their feedback and help. This work was supported in part by NSF under ITR-0082265. ...
doi:10.1145/774849.774851
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Interactive, visual fault localization support for end-user programmers
2005
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
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To help these users debug these programs, we have developed an entirely visual, interactive approach to fault localization. This paper presents the approach. ...
We also present the results of a think-aloud study that examined interactive, human-centric issues that arise in end-user debugging using a fault localization approach. ...
Acknowledgements We thank the members of the Visual Programming Research Group at Oregon State University for their feedback and help. ...
doi:10.1016/j.jvlc.2004.07.001
fatcat:swvsqi376bdvlctju5bxuheqiy
An empirical study of fault localization for end-user programmers
2005
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering - ICSE '05
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Our results shed new insights into fault localization techniques for end-user programmers and the factors that affect them, with significant implications for the evaluation of those techniques. ...
We have been addressing this problem in several ways, one of which includes supporting end-user debugging activities through fault localization techniques. ...
A problem for the software engineering community, then, is to provide end users with better support for their software development activities. ...
doi:10.1145/1062455.1062523
dblp:conf/icse/RuthruffBR05
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Using HTML5 visualizations in software fault localization
2013
2013 First IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)
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Automated software fault localization can drastically improve the efficiency of this phase, thus improving the overall quality of the software. ...
Finally, we performed an user study with GZOLTAR and confirmed that the visualizations help to drastically reduce the time needed in debugging (e.g., all participants using the visualizations were able ...
We would like to thank Nuno Cardoso, for the useful feedback on previous versions of this paper. ...
doi:10.1109/vissoft.2013.6650539
dblp:conf/vissoft/GouveiaCA13
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FaultTracer
2012
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering - FSE '12
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Keeping evolving software fault-free is hard. In our previous work, we proposed FaultTracer, a change impact and regression fault analysis tool for evolving programs. ...
It adapts spectrum-based fault localization techniques and applies them in tandem with an enhanced change impact analysis to identify and rank failure-inducing program edits. ...
Figure 5 : 5 Open FaultTracer views. tion and fault localization using the tool. ...
doi:10.1145/2393596.2393642
dblp:conf/sigsoft/ZhangKK12
fatcat:lo2b6rtfnvhedhxgucdeo3c664
Software visualization for end-user programmers
2008
Proceedings of the 4th ACM symposium on Software visuallization - SoftVis '08
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Software visualization for end-user programmers is a relatively unexplored opportunity area. ...
We conducted a case study of an end-user programmer (an accountant) in this situation, as she tried out a commercial spreadsheet visualization tool to make an adoption decision. ...
Design Our "case" (situation) was an end user trying out an end-user software visualization tool. ...
doi:10.1145/1409720.1409742
dblp:conf/softvis/SubrahmaniyanBB08
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End-user software engineering
2004
Communications of the ACM
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Given end users' unfamiliarity with quality control methods for software, strategies must be devised by which end-user software engineering approaches capture the interest of end-user programmers and motivate ...
Fault localization 3 formativeEnd users Different fault localization heuristics had very different advantages early in users' testing processes. ...
doi:10.1145/1015864.1015889
fatcat:mz4fpks4pjdnnp7u7sypkmrucq
Sharing reasoning about faults in spreadsheets: An empirical study
2006
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'06)
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In this paper, we report empirical results from an emerging system that attempts to improve fault localization for end-user programmers by sharing the results of the reasoning systems found in WYSIWYT ...
By evaluating the visual feedback from each fault localization system, we shed light on where these different forms of reasoning and combinations of them complement -and contradict -one another, and which ...
Woodstein [23] is a software agent that visually assists users in debugging e-commerce errors. ...
doi:10.1109/vlhcc.2006.43
dblp:conf/vl/LawranceABE06
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Synchronized sampling uses for real-time monitoring and control
2009
41st North American Power Symposium
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This will result in intelligent operator tools for alarm processing, fault analysis and breaker switching management, which will increase the effectiveness of power system visualizations and reduce the ...
This paper addresses a set of visualization tools for future generation of switchable networks, with a particular emphasis on visualization used in the control center. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Papiya Dutta and Yufan Guan, for their work on the Optimized Fault Location and Intelligent Alarm Processor respectively. ...
doi:10.1109/naps.2009.5484038
fatcat:mufn4x3e6vbopho4ybjbdwksga
Avoiding, finding and fixing spreadsheet errors – A survey of automated approaches for spreadsheet QA
2014
Journal of Systems and Software
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Some reasons for the error-proneness of spreadsheets are that spreadsheets are developed by end users and that standard software quality assurance processes are mostly not applied. ...
Correspondingly, during the last two decades, researchers have proposed a number of techniques and automated tools aimed at supporting the end user in the development of error-free spreadsheets. ...
They evaluated their version of spectrum-based fault localization for spreadsheets on a subset of the EUSES spreadsheet corpus and compared the fault localization capabilities of spectrum-based fault localization ...
doi:10.1016/j.jss.2014.03.058
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Revisiting the Practical Use of Automated Software Fault Localization Techniques
2017
2017 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW)
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INTRODUCTION Software systems are complex and error-prone, likely to expose failures to the end user. When a failure occurs, the developer has to debug the system to eliminate the failure. ...
for future research in the area of fault localization. ...
doi:10.1109/issrew.2017.68
dblp:conf/issre/AngPDA17
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Framing program comprehension as fault localization
2016
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process
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We propose an approach, coined Spectrum-based Feature Comprehension (SFC), that borrows techniques used for automatic software-fault-localization, which were proven to be effective even when debugging ...
We present a toolset, coined PANGOLIN, that implements SFC and displays its report to the user using an intuitive visualization. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank the students from the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto for participating in our user study. ...
doi:10.1002/smr.1799
fatcat:zerpa5gnobfrdnu37xgvbv4jvi
Merging PMU, Operational, and Non-Operational Data for Interpreting Alarms, Locating Faults and Preventing Cascades
2010
2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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A set of new control center visualization tools shows that the merging of PMU, operational and nonoperational data could improve the effectiveness of alarm processing, accuracy of fault location and ability ...
recorders, as well as their applications in alarm processing, fault location and cascading event analysis. ...
The authors gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Yufan Guan, Papiya Dutta, and Ozgur Gonen, from their work on the intelligent alarm processor, optimized fault location, and control center visualization ...
doi:10.1109/hicss.2010.271
dblp:conf/hicss/KezunovicZP10
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Interactive fault localization techniques in a spreadsheet environment
2006
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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This article investigates fault localization techniques in the spreadsheet domain, the most common type of end-user programming environment. ...
We have been working to address this problem in several ways, one of which includes supporting end-user debugging activities through interactive fault localization techniques. ...
We thank the anonymous reviewers of this article for comments that improved the content of the work. This work was supported in part by the EUSES Consortium via NSF grant ITR-0325273. ...
doi:10.1109/tse.2006.37
fatcat:rcjags5epbgx5g6v67geqzhpja
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