Error messages: the neglected area of the man/machine interface
Communications of the ACM
Designing computer system messages
Communications of the ACM
On compiler error messages: what they say and what they mean
Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
Why don't software developers use static analysis tools to find bugs?
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
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Program analysis tools often output error notifications that novice and industry programmers both have trouble understanding. The lack of expressive, scalable error notifications makes programming difficult to novice developers and hinders the progress of industry developers. Here, I propose a taxonomy of error notifications containing categories each with a model syntax for error notifications of similar type. By categorizing error notifications into 39 categories, and developing a questionnaire to aid in the categorization process, error notification creators can edit and refine existing error notifications as well as use the categories to create expressive, scalable error notifications that offer developers a better opportunity to resolve errors.