Explaining Debugging Strategies to End-User Programmers

Authors:
Neeraja Subrahmaniyan;Cory Kissinger;Kyle Rector;Derek Inman;Jared Kaplan;Laura Beckwith;Margaret Burnett
Affiliations:
Oregon State University, USA;Oregon State University, USA;Oregon State University, USA;Oregon State University, USA;Oregon State University, USA;Oregon State University, USA;Oregon State University, USA
Venue:
VLHCC '07 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Year:
2007

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Abstract

There has been little research into how end-user programming environments can provide explanations that could fill a critical information gap for end-user debuggers -- help with debugging strategy. To address this need, we designed and prototyped a video-based approach for explaining debugging strategy, and accompanied it with a text-only approach. We then conducted a qualitative empirical study with end-user debuggers. The results reveal the influences of the explanations on end-user debuggers' decision making, how users reacted to the video versus textual media, and the information gaps the explanations closed. The results also reveal issues of particular importance to explanations of this type.