End-users productivity in model-based spreadsheets: an empirical study

Authors:
Laura Beckwith;Jácome Cunha;João Paulo Fernandes;João Saraiva
Affiliations:
HCIResearcher, Denmark;Universidade do Minho, Portugal and ESTGF, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal;Universidade do Minho, Portugal and Universidade do Porto, Portugal;Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Venue:
IS-EUD'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on End-user development
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Spreadsheets are widely used and studies show that most of the existing ones contain non-trivial errors. To improve end-users productivity, recent research proposes the use of a model-driven engineering approach to spreadsheets. In this paper we conduct the first empirical study to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of this approach. A set of spreadsheet end users worked with two different model-based spreadsheets. We present and analyze here the results achieved.