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ISEUD
2011
Springer
12 years 10 months ago
End-Users Productivity in Model-Based Spreadsheets: An Empirical Study
Abstract. Spreadsheets are widely used and studies show that most of the existing ones contain non-trivial errors. To improve end-users productivity, recent research proposes the u...
Laura Beckwith, Jácome Cunha, João P...
VL
2010
IEEE
209views Visual Languages» more  VL 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Automatically Inferring ClassSheet Models from Spreadsheets
Many errors in spreadsheet formulas can be avoided if spreadsheets are built automatically from higher-level models that can encode and enforce consistency constraints. However, d...
Jacome Cunha, Martin Erwig, Joao Saraiva
JFP
2006
119views more  JFP 2006»
13 years 6 months ago
Gencel: a program generator for correct spreadsheets
A huge discrepancy between theory and practice exists in one popular application area of functional programming--spreadsheets. Although spreadsheets are the most frequently used (...
Martin Erwig, Robin Abraham, Steve Kollmansberger,...
CORR
2008
Springer
103views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
When, why and how to test spreadsheets
Testing is a vital part of software development, and spreadsheets are like any other software in this respect. This paper discusses the testing of spreadsheets in the light of one...
Louise Pryor
CORR
2008
Springer
115views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
New Guidelines For Spreadsheets
This article examines rules of style for text, graphics, and mathematics and applies these rules to spreadsheets. The article describes the new style in detail with an example and...
John F. Raffensperger
CORR
2008
Springer
110views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Audit and Change Analysis of Spreadsheets
Because spreadsheets have a large and growing importance in real-world work, their contents need to be controlled and validated. Generally spreadsheets have been difficult to veri...
John C. Nash, Neil Smith, Andy Adler
CORR
2008
Springer
102views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Breaking Out of the Cell: On The Benefits of a New Spreadsheet User-Interaction Paradigm
Contemporary spreadsheets are plagued by a profusion of errors, auditing difficulties, lack of uniform development methodologies, and barriers to easy comprehension of the underly...
Ziv Hellman
CORR
2008
Springer
122views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Exploring Human Factors in Spreadsheet Development
In this paper we consider human factors and their impact on spreadsheet development in strategic decision-making. This paper brings forward research from many disciplines both dir...
Simon R. Thorne, David Ball
CORR
2010
Springer
135views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Spreadsheet Refactoring
Refactoring is a change made to the internal structure of software to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing its observable behaviour. A database refa...
Patrick O'Beirne
CORR
2008
Springer
89views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
A New Approach to Spreadsheet Analytics Management in Financial Markets
Spreadsheets in financial markets are frequently used as database, calculator and reporting application combined. This paper describes an alternative approach in which spreadsheet...
Brian Sentence