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SOFTVIS
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Towards anomaly comprehension: using structural compression to navigate profiling call-trees
Developers must often diagnose anomalies in programs they only have a partial knowledge of. As a result, they must simultaneously reverse engineer parts of the system they are unf...
Shen Lin 0003, François Taïani, Thomas...
COMPSAC
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
From System Comprehension to Program Comprehension
Program and system comprehension are vital parts of the software maintenance process. We discuss the need for both perspectives and describe two methods that may be integrated to ...
Christos Tjortjis, Nicolas Gold, Paul J. Layzell, ...
IWPC
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Theories, Methods and Tools in Program Comprehension: Past, Present and Future
Program comprehension research can be characterized by both the theories that provide rich explanations about how programmers comprehend software, as well as the tools that are us...
Margaret-Anne D. Storey
WCRE
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Structured Demonstration of Program Comprehension Tools
This paper describes a structured tool demonstration, a hybrid evaluation technique that combines elements from experiments, case studies, and technology demonstrations. Developer...
Susan Elliott Sim, Margaret-Anne D. Storey
IWPC
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
gccXfront: Exploiting gcc as a Front End for Program Comprehension Tools via XML/XSLT
Parsing programming languages is an essential component of the front end of most program comprehension tools. Languages such as C++ can be difficult to parse and so it can prove ...
Mark Hennessy, Brian A. Malloy, James F. Power