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2008
IEEE
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A case study of API redesign for improved usability
As software grows more complex, software developers’ productivity is increasingly defined by their ability to effectively reuse code. Even APIs (application programming interfac...
Jeffrey Stylos, Benjamin Graf, Daniela K. Busse, C...
VL
2008
IEEE
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Collaborative end-user development on handheld devices
Web 2.0 has enabled end users to collaborate through their own developed artifacts, moving on from text (e.g., Wikipedia, Blogs) to images (e.g., Flickr) and movies (e.g., YouTube...
Navid Ahmadi, Alexander Repenning, Andri Ioannidou
VL
2008
IEEE
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A visual language for representing and explaining strategies in game theory
We present a visual language for strategies in game theory, which has potential applications in economics, social sciences, and in general science education. This language facilit...
Martin Erwig, Eric Walkingshaw
VL
2008
IEEE
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Tool support for working with sets of source code entities
Previous research has identified several challenges that programmers face in answering questions about a code base. To explore ways to overcome those challenges, we have develope...
Curtis Fraser, Chris Luce, Jamie Starke, Jonathan ...
VL
2008
IEEE
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Visualization for information exploration and analysis
Making sense of data becomes more challenging as the data grows larger and becomes more complex. If a picture truly can be worth a thousand words, then clever visualizations of da...
John T. Stasko
VL
2008
IEEE
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What's in a mashup? And why? Studying the perceptions of web-active end users
Mashups – web applications that integrate multiple data sources or APIs into one interface – have attracted considerable attention in recent years. The availability of web-bas...
Nan Zang, Mary Beth Rosson
VL
2008
IEEE
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Codetrail: Connecting source code and web resources
When faced with the need for documentation, examples, bug fixes, error descriptions, code snippets, workarounds, templates, patterns, or advice, software developers frequently tu...
Max Goldman, Robert C. Miller
VL
2008
IEEE
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Can feature design reduce the gender gap in end-user software development environments?
Recent research has begun to report that female enduser programmers are often more reluctant than males to employ features that are useful for testing and debugging. These earlier...
Valentina Grigoreanu, Jill Cao, Todd Kulesza, Chri...
VL
2008
IEEE
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Towards end-user web software visualization
Software visualization has always been expensive, special purpose, and hard to program. Most of the existing software visualization tools require too much time for enduser develop...
Craig Anslow, James Noble, Stuart Marshall, Ewan D...