Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies • Vol 6 • No 4
Helping Users Debug Trigger-Action Programs
December 2022 • Lefan Zhang, Cyrus Zhou, Michael L. Littman, Blase Ur, Shan Lu
Trigger-action programming (TAP) empowers a wide array of users to automate Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, it can be challenging for users to create completely correct trigger-action programs (TAPs) on the first try, necessitating debugging. While TAP has received substantial research attention, TAP debugging has not. In this paper, we present the first empirical study of users' end-to-end TAP debugging process, focusing on obstacles users face in debugging TAPs and how well users ultimately fix incorr…