Toward Providing Live Feedback in Web Automation IDEs

Rebecca Krosnick and Steve Oney

LIVE 2020

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Overview

This paper presents VizMac, which links recorded web automation code to animations of the original browser actions to help programmers understand and edit scripts. An eight-person study identified debugging difficulties that motivate proposed live previews and error feedback as scripts change.

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@inproceedings{krosnick2020toward,
  author    = {Krosnick, Rebecca and Oney, Steve},
  title     = {Toward Providing Live Feedback in Web Automation {IDEs}},
  booktitle = {Workshop on Live Programming},
  year      = {2020}
}