Garbage in, Garbage out? An Empirical Look at Oracle Mistakes by End-User Programmers

Authors:
Amit Phalgune;Cory Kissinger;Margaret Burnett;Curtis Cook;Laura Beckwith;Joseph R. Ruthruff
Affiliations:
Oregon State University;Oregon State University;Oregon State University;Oregon State University;Oregon State University;University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Venue:
VLHCC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Year:
2005

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Abstract

End-user programmers, because they are human, make mistakes. However, past research has not considered how visual end-user debugging devices could be designed to ameliorate the effects of mistakes. This paper empirically examines oracle mistakes 驴 mistakes users make about which values are right and which are wrong 驴 to reveal differences in how different types of oracle mistakes impact the quality of visual feedback about bugs. We then consider the implications of these empirical results for designers of end-user software engineering environments.