Designing Features for Both Genders in End-User Programming Environments

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Beckwith ◽  
S. Sorte ◽  
M. Burnett ◽  
S. Wiedenbeck ◽  
T. Chintakovid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
End User ◽  
Programming Environments ◽  
End User Programming

End-User Software Engineering and Why it Matters

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Quality ◽  
End Users ◽  
End User ◽  
Programming Environments ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
End User Programming ◽  
Philosophy Of Software Engineering

End-user programming has become ubiquitous; so much so that there are more end-user programmers today than there are professional programmers. End-user programming empowers—but to do what? Make bad decisions based on bad programs? Enter software engineering’s focus on quality. Considering software quality is necessary, because there is ample evidence that the programs end users create are filled with expensive errors. In this paper, we consider what happens when we add considerations of software quality to end-user programming environments, going beyond the “create a program” aspect of end-user programming. We describe a philosophy of software engineering for end users, and then survey several projects in this area. A basic premise is that end-user software engineering can only succeed to the extent that it respects that the user probably has little expertise or even interest in software engineering.

Beyond Solo End-User Programming

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Christopher Scaffidi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Support ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
End Users ◽  
End User ◽  
Programming Environments ◽  
Survey Paper ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
End User Programming ◽  
Software Engineers

Many end-user programming environments are “reuse environments” that store and organize code so users can extend, adapt, and combine existing code. Yet to date, no well-validated, theory-based body of design principles exists for guiding the development of these reuse environments. The contribution of this survey paper is to identify relevant theoretical perspectives and candidate design principles by which these theories could be extended, adapted, and/or applied to the problem of understanding how and when end-user programmers reuse code. In particular, based on this survey, candidate principles are identified that (1) could be used to guide the design of environments for end-user reuse of code, (2) are grounded in theory, and (3) have preliminary empirical support. This contribution is beneficial because successfully applying these principles could increase the benefit of end-user programming by helping software engineers to deliver effective programming environments to end users.

End-User Software Engineering and Why It Matters

2012 ◽  
pp. 185-201
Author(s):  
Margaret Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Quality ◽  
End Users ◽  
End User ◽  
Programming Environments ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
End User Programming ◽  
Philosophy Of Software Engineering

End-user programming has become ubiquitous; so much so that there are more end-user programmers today than there are professional programmers. End-user programming empowers—but to do what? Make bad decisions based on bad programs? Enter software engineering’s focus on quality. Considering software quality is necessary, because there is ample evidence that the programs end users create are filled with expensive errors. In this paper, we consider what happens when we add considerations of software quality to end-user programming environments, going beyond the “create a program” aspect of end-user programming. We describe a philosophy of software engineering for end users, and then survey several projects in this area. A basic premise is that end-user software engineering can only succeed to the extent that it respects that the user probably has little expertise or even interest in software engineering.

scholarly journals Show Me The Rules! A User Study On Making Data Validation Rules Explicit in Spreadsheet Applications

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Gava ◽  
Bruna Vilela ◽  
Elder Cirilo ◽  
Eiji Adachi
Keyword(s):  
User Study ◽  
Promising Result ◽  
Data Validation ◽  
Data Input ◽  
End User ◽  
Programming Environments ◽  
End User Programming ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
A Cell

Spreadsheet applications have become one of the most popular end-user programming environments with innumerous built-in facilities, including arithmetic, financial and statistical operations. Not surprisingly, spreadsheet applications play significant role in decision-making processes in organizations, thus making spreadsheet errors serious threats. Reports from field audits show that spreadsheet errors may cause companies to lose millions of dollars annually. One effective and simple way of helping users to avoid introducing mistakes in their spreadsheets is data validation. Indeed, most spreadsheet applications provide a wide range of built-in functions to restrict the type of the input data or the range of valid values entered into a cell. However, in most of them, the underlying design decisions governing how data input should be entered in a spreadsheet are not explicitly visible to its users. Hiding data validation rules from users may hinder the comprehensibility and the usability of a spreadsheet, thus increasing the risks of entering incorrect data input. To assist end-user programmers in explicitly expressing validation rules in spreadsheets, we propose the SpreadSheet Validation Language (SSVL). We conducted a user study to assess the effectiveness of SSVL. The results show that users using SSVL are faster and more productive in tasks involving the comprehension of data validation rules. This is a promising result suggesting that SSVL can actually improve the usability of spreadsheets.

scholarly journals Semiotic engineering principles for evaluating end-user programming environments

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.S de Souza ◽  
S.D.J Barbosa ◽  
S.R.P da Silva
Keyword(s):  
End User ◽  
Programming Environments ◽  
End User Programming
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