Debugging support for end user mashup programming

Kuttal, Sandeep Kaur; Sarma, Anita; Rothermel, Gregg

doi:10.1145/2470654.2466213

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“…Programming environments to create mashups have been considered as a use for end users, due to their facility of programming. For that reason, several studies have been developed to understand the difficulties that end users face in the creation of mashups [39], as well as support tools for debugging [40]. Other reviewed articles implement new tools for creating mashups in a more usable way [41].…”

Section: A: Programming Environment For End Usersmentioning

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Programmer eXperience: A Systematic Literature Review

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Programmers use various software development artifacts in their work, such as programming environments, design documents, and programming codes. These software artifacts can be studied and improved based on usability and User eXperience (UX) factors. In this paper, we consider programmers to be a specific case of users and analyze different elements that influence their experience in this specific context. We conducted a systematic literature review of papers published over the last ten years related to 1) the definition of the Programmer eXperience (PX); 2) the PX, UX, and usability factors regarding the programming environments, design documents, and programming codes; and 3) sets of heuristics to evaluate the software development artifacts mentioned before. We analyzed 73 articles, and the results obtained show that: 1) the important elements that influence the PX are the motivation of programmers and the choice of tools they use in their work, such as programming environments; 2) most of the identified studies (59%) aimed to evaluate the influence of the PX, UX, and usability on programming environments; 3) the majority of the studies (70%) used methods such as usability tests and/or heuristic evaluation methods; and 4) four sets of heuristics are used to evaluate software development artifacts in relation to programming environments, programming languages, and application programming interfaces. The results suggest that further research in this area is necessary to better understand and evaluate the concept of the PX.

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Section: A: Programming Environment For End Usersmentioning

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“…In the design and composition discipline , the DW provides visual aids to help users link the selected components using connectors that set up valid data flows. End users have problems with this ( Kuttal et al, 2013 ). The DW highlights inputs and outputs that are compatible depending on the respective data type.…”

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Automatic verification and validation wizard in web-centred end-user software engineering

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Journal of Systems and Software

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“…A different way to help users is through providing features built directly into the programming environment, in order to support problemsolving activities during programming. For example, StratCel and WYSIWYT aimed to help end users test and debug spreadsheets [18,8], and this approach has also proven effective in programming web mashups [30], and supporting end users in debugging intelligent systems [29]. We draw inspiration from this work for end users developing physical computing prototypes, and are investigating the problems these end users face, with the aim of building appropriate support tools.…”

Section: End-user Programming and Software Engineeringmentioning

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Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Considerable research has focused on the problems that end users face when programming software, in order to help them overcome their difficulties, but there is little research into the problems that arise in physical computing when end users construct circuits and program them. In an empirical study, we observed end-user developers as they connected a temperature sensor to an Arduino microcontroller and visualized its readings using LEDs. We investigated how many problems participants encountered, the problem locations, and whether they were overcome. We show that most fatal faults were due to incorrect circuit construction, and that often problems were wrongly diagnosed as program bugs. Whereas there are development environments that help end users create and debug software, there is currently little analogous support for physical computing tasks. Our work is a first step towards building appropriate tools that support end-user developers in overcoming obstacles when constructing physical computing artifacts.

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Debugging support for end user mashup programming

Cited by 11 publications

References 19 publications

Programmer eXperience: A Systematic Literature Review

Programmer eXperience: A Systematic Literature Review

Automatic verification and validation wizard in web-centred end-user software engineering

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