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Fast, Accurate Creation of Data Validation Formats by End-User Developers

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Chris Scaffidi,

Mary ShawAuthors Info & Claims

IS-EUD 2009: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on End-User Development - Volume 5435

Pages 242 - 261

Published: 02 March 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Inputs to web forms often contain typos or other errors. However, existing web form design tools require end-user developers to write regular expressions "regexps" or even scripts to validate inputs, which is slow and error-prone because of the poor match between common data types and the regexp notation. We present a new technique enabling end-user developers to describe data as a series of constrained parts, and we have incorporated our technique into a prototype tool. Using this tool, end-user developers can create validation code more quickly and accurately than with existing techniques, finding 90% of invalid inputs in a lab study. This study and our evaluation of the technique's generality have motivated several tool improvements, which we have implemented and now evaluate using the Cognitive Dimensions framework.

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Scaffidi CMyers BShaw MConati CBauer MOliver NWeld D(2009)Intelligently creating and recommending reusable reformatting rulesProceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces10.1145/1502650.1502692(297-306)Online publication date: 8-Feb-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1502650.1502692

Fast, Accurate Creation of Data Validation Formats by End-User Developers
1. Information systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management

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IS-EUD 2009: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on End-User Development - Volume 5435

March 2009

277 pages

ISBN:9783642004254

Editors:
Volkmar Pipek
University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
,
Mary Rosson
College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
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Boris Ruyter
Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Volker Wulf
Faculty of Information System and New Media, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

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Scaffidi CMyers BShaw MConati CBauer MOliver NWeld D(2009)Intelligently creating and recommending reusable reformatting rulesProceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces10.1145/1502650.1502692(297-306)Online publication date: 8-Feb-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1502650.1502692

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