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Felienne Hermans, Martin Pinzger, and Arie van Deursen. “Supporting Professional Spreadsheet Users by Generating Leveled Dataflow Diagrams”, ICSE 2011. Thanks to their flexibility and intuitive programming model, spreadsheets are widely used in industry, often for business- critical applications. Similar to software developers, pro- fessional spreadsheet users demand support for maintaining and transferring their spreadsheets. In [...]

Laura Dabbish, Colleen Stuart, Jason Tsay, and Jim Herbsleb. “Social Coding in GitHub: Transparency and Collaboration in an Open Software Repository” CSCW 2012. Social applications on the web let users track and follow the activities of a large number of others regardless of location or affiliation. There is a potential for this transparency to radically [...]