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ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Debugging reinvented: asking and answering why and why not questions about program behavior
When software developers want to understand the reason for a program's behavior, they must translate their questions about the behavior into a series of questions about code,...
Andrew Jensen Ko, Brad A. Myers
ESEC
1999
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Yesterday, My Program Worked. Today, It Does Not. Why?
Imagine some program and a number of changes. If none of these changes is applied (“yesterday”), the program works. If all changes are applied (“today”), the program does n...
Andreas Zeller
MOZ
2004
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
The Structure of Authority: Why Security Is Not a Separable Concern
Common programming practice grants excess authority for the sake of functionality; programming principles require least authority for the sake of security. If we practice our princ...
Mark S. Miller, Bill Tulloh, Jonathan S. Shapiro
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Answering why and why not questions in user interfaces
Modern applications such as Microsoft Word have many automatic features and hidden dependencies that are frequently helpful but can be mysterious to both novice and expert users. ...
Brad A. Myers, David A. Weitzman, Andrew Jensen Ko...