TY - GEN
T1 - TrueGrid
T2 - Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations, STAF 2016 Collocated Workshops: 5th International Symposium on Data to Models and Back, DataMod 2016, 7th International Workshop on Graph Computation Models, GCM 2016, 3rd International Workshop on Human-Oriented Formal Methods, HOFM 2016, 2nd International Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering, Logic and Optimization, MELO 2016, 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering Methods in Spreadsheets, SEMS 2016 and 1st International Workshop on Formal to Practical Software Verification and Composition, VeryComp 2016
AU - Hermans, Felienne
AU - van der Storm, Tijs
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Spreadsheet systems are live programming environments. Both the data and the code are right in front you, and if you edit either of them, the effects are immediately visible. Unfortunately, spreadsheets lack mechanisms for abstraction, such as classes, function definitions etc. Programming languages excel at abstraction, but most mainstream languages or integrated development environments (IDEs) do not support the interactive, live feedback loop of spreadsheets. As a result, exploring and testing of code is cumbersome and indirect. In this paper we propose a method to bring both worlds closer together, by juxtaposing ordinary code and spreadsheet-like grids in the IDE, called TrueGrid. Using TrueGrid spreadsheet cells can be programmed with a fully featured programming language. Spreadsheet users then may enjoy benefits of source code, including added abstractions, syntax highlighting, version control, etc. On the other hand, programmers may leverage the grid for interactive exploring and testing of code. We illustrate these benefits using a prototype implementation of True- Grid that runs in the browser and uses Javascript as a programming language.
AB - Spreadsheet systems are live programming environments. Both the data and the code are right in front you, and if you edit either of them, the effects are immediately visible. Unfortunately, spreadsheets lack mechanisms for abstraction, such as classes, function definitions etc. Programming languages excel at abstraction, but most mainstream languages or integrated development environments (IDEs) do not support the interactive, live feedback loop of spreadsheets. As a result, exploring and testing of code is cumbersome and indirect. In this paper we propose a method to bring both worlds closer together, by juxtaposing ordinary code and spreadsheet-like grids in the IDE, called TrueGrid. Using TrueGrid spreadsheet cells can be programmed with a fully featured programming language. Spreadsheet users then may enjoy benefits of source code, including added abstractions, syntax highlighting, version control, etc. On the other hand, programmers may leverage the grid for interactive exploring and testing of code. We illustrate these benefits using a prototype implementation of True- Grid that runs in the browser and uses Javascript as a programming language.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85007351223&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-50230-4_29
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-50230-4_29
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85007351223
SN - 978-3-319-50229-8
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 388
EP - 393
BT - Software Technologies
A2 - Milazzo, P.
A2 - Varró, D.
A2 - Wimmer, M.
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
Y2 - 4 July 2016 through 8 July 2016
ER -