An empirical evaluation of a testing and debugging methodology for Excel
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
Software visualization for end-user programmers: trial period obstacles
Proceedings of the 4th ACM symposium on Software visualization
The state of the art in end-user software engineering
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Improving spreadsheet test practices
CASCON '13 Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research
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Spreadsheets are widely used but often contain faults. Thus, in prior work we presented a dataflow testing methodology for use with spreadsheets, which studies have shown can be used cost-effectively by enduser programmers. To date, however, the methodology has been investigated across a limited set of spreadsheet language features. Commercial spreadsheet environments are multiparadigm languages, utilizing features not accommodated by our prior approaches. In addition, most spreadsheets contain large numbers of replicated formulas that severely limit the efficiency of dataflow testing approaches. We show how to handle these two issues with a new dataflow adequacy criterion and automated detection of areas of replicated formulas, and report results of a controlled experiment investigating the feasibility of our approach.