Stanford End-user software engineering * 4:15PM, Wed November 03, 2004 in Gates B03

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: [CSL Colloq] End-user software engineering * 4:15PM, Wed 
November 03, 2004 in Gates B03
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              COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM
               4:15PM, Wednesday, November 03, 2004
       NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
                   http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]

Topic:    End-user software engineering

Speaker:  Professor Margaret Burnett
          Oregon State University

About the talk:

In this talk, we will consider what happens when we add to
end-user programming environments consideration of the software
lifecycle beyond the "coding" phase. Considering other phases
seems necessary, because there is ample evidence that end users'
programs are filled with errors.

The EUSES Consortium[2] is a new NSF consortium of researchers
who are working on this problem. As part of this consortium,
several of my colleagues and I have been working on a holistic
approach to software engineering for end users. It incorporates
support for testing, fault localization, and assertions, in an
incremental manner integrated in a fine-grained way with the
environment. The software engineering knowledge is in the system,
and the user is not expected to have expertise in software
engineering. In this talk, I will focus primarily on how testing
and assertions are supported as part of this approach, including
our "Surprise-Explain-Reward" strategy for motivating end users
to employ these software engineering devices.

About the speaker:

Margaret Burnett[3], Professor, Oregon State University

Margaret Burnett has been involved in HCI aspects of programming
for many years. She is the principal architect of Forms/3, a
spreadsheet-like research language for exploring the boundaries
of the spreadsheet paradigm, and of the FAR multi-paradigm
programming language for end users. Most recently her interests
have centered on end-user software engineering. Burnett is a past
recipient of the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator
Award. She has been a member of the Program Committees for the
IEEE Visual Language Symposium, ACM Conference on Programming
Language Design and Implementation, the ACM Symposium on Software
Visualization, Advanced Visual Interfaces, and several others.
She is also Project Director of the NSF-funded EUSES Consortium[4],
a group of researchers from Oregon State University, Carnegie
Mellon University, Drexel University, University of Nebraska,
Pennsylvania State University, and Cambridge University, who are
working together to help End Users Shape Effective Software.

Contact information:

Margaret Burnett
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Oregon State University


Embedded Links:
[ 1 ]    http://ee380.stanford.edu
[ 2 ]    http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/EUSES/
[ 3 ]    http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~burnett/
[ 4 ]    http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/EUSES/

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