Designing the whyline: a debugging interface for asking questions about program behavior Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:671755, abstract = {Debugging is still among the most common and costly of programming activities. One reason is that current debugging tools do not directly support the inquisitive nature of the activity. Interrogative Debugging is a new debugging paradigm in which programmers can ask why did and even why didn't questions directly about their program's runtime failures. The Whyline is a prototype Interrogative Debugging interface for the Alice programming environment that visualizes answers in terms of runtime events directly relevant to a programmer's question. Comparisons of identical debugging scenarios from user tests with and without the Whyline showed that the Whyline reduced debugging time by nearly a factor of 8, and helped programmers complete 40\% more tasks.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Ko, Andrew J. and Myers, Brad A.}, booktitle = {CHI '04: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {671755}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=985712}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985692.985712}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ajko/papers/DesigningTheWhyline.pdf}, doi = {10.1145/985692.985712}, isbn = {1581137028}, keywords = {cs-mini, debugging, design, end-user-programming, hcii-minis, interaction}, pages = {151--158}, posted-at = {2007-01-09 16:30:44}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Designing the whyline: a debugging interface for asking questions about program behavior}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985692.985712}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:671755 L3 - citeulike-article-id:671755 N2 - Debugging is still among the most common and costly of programming activities. One reason is that current debugging tools do not directly support the inquisitive nature of the activity. Interrogative Debugging is a new debugging paradigm in which programmers can ask why did and even why didn't questions directly about their program's runtime failures. The Whyline is a prototype Interrogative Debugging interface for the Alice programming environment that visualizes answers in terms of runtime events directly relevant to a programmer's question. Comparisons of identical debugging scenarios from user tests with and without the Whyline showed that the Whyline reduced debugging time by nearly a factor of 8, and helped programmers complete 40% more tasks. SN - 1581137028 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 158 TI - Designing the whyline: a debugging interface for asking questions about program behavior PB - ACM Press T2 - CHI '04: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 151 KW - cs-mini KW - debugging KW - design KW - end-user-programming KW - hcii-minis KW - interaction AU - Ko, Andrew AU - Myers, Brad PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985692.985712 ER -