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GoalDebug: A Spreadsheet Debugger for End Users
Minneapolis, Minnesota May 20-May 26
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Robin Abraham, Martin Erwig, "GoalDebug: A Spreadsheet Debugger for End Users," Software Engineering, International Conference on, pp. 251-260, 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'07), 2007.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/ICSE.2007.39,
author = {Robin Abraham and Martin Erwig},
title = {GoalDebug: A Spreadsheet Debugger for End Users},
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publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
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Robin Abraham, Oregon State University, USA
Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA
We present a spreadsheet debugger targeted at end users. Whenever the computed output of a cell is incorrect, the user can supply an expected value for a cell, which is employed by the system to generate a list of change suggestions for formulas that, when applied, would result in the user-specified output. The change suggestions are ranked using a set of heuristics.

In previous work, we had presented the system as a proof of concept. In this paper, we describe a systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of inferred change suggestions and the employed ranking heuristics. Based on the results of the evaluation we have extended both, the change inference process and the ranking of suggestions. An evaluation of the improved system shows that change inference process and the ranking heuristics have both been substantially improved and that the system performs effectively.

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Robin Abraham, Martin Erwig, "GoalDebug: A Spreadsheet Debugger for End Users," icse, pp.251-260, 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'07), 2007
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