End-User Software Development: Effectiveness of a Software Engineering-Centric Instructional Strategy

Mutual Development: The Software Engineering Context of End-User Development

INTRODUCTION The goal of the research reported here is to identify areas where end-user development (EUD) and professional software development meet and interact. We have observed and participated in development activities in a commercial software house (referred to as company) over a period of two years. We propose a model of the activities, which we refer to as mutual development. The model c...

Software Engineering for End - User

It is estimated that by 2005, there will be 55 million end-user programmers compared to 2.75 million professional programmers. Even though end-user programs have the same reliability problems, software engineering research has largely ignored the end-user community. Because end users are different from professional programmers in motivation, background, and interests, the end-user community can...

End - User Computing , Development and Software Engineering : New Challenges

End-User Software Engineering and Professional End-User Developers

By the term ‘professional end-user developers’ is meant professionals working in a highly technical, knowledge-rich domain who develop their own software in order to further their professional work. I have conducted empirical studies of such developers working in the domains of financial mathematics ([1], [2]), earth and space sciences ([2], [3]), and, currently, structural biology. These devel...

Designers Need End-User Software Engineering

For many years I have been interested in how design works, and in how to support designers doing design. Inspired by tools like Macsyma (and later Mathematica, etc.), I became interested in building end-user languages and tools that are in a sense general-purpose systems and yet that end users can tailor or customize to correspond to their own needs. Whether there are specific structures and op...