Software visualization for end-user programmers: trial period obstacles

Authors:
Neeraja Subrahmaniyan;Margaret Burnett;Christopher Bogart
Affiliations:
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon and Microsoft, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA;Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon;Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Venue:
Proceedings of the 4th ACM symposium on Software visualization
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Software visualization for end-user programmers is a relatively unexplored opportunity area. There are advances in software visualization research pertinent to this, but the adoption stage has been entirely ignored. In this paper, we focus on a popular facilitator of adoption decisions: the free trial period. We conducted a case study of an end-user programmer (an accountant) in this situation, as she tried out a commercial spreadsheet visualization tool to make an adoption decision. The results have implications for both theory and design, revealing open questions, design opportunities, and strengths and weaknesses of theoretical foundations.