While code understanding is the primary program comprehension activity, it is quite challenging to recognize the application requirements from code, since they have usually been o...
Mohammad El-Ramly, Eleni Stroulia, Paul G. Sorenso...
Instrumenting programs with code to monitor runtime behavior is a common technique for profiling and debugging. In practice, instrumentation is either inserted manually by progra...
Simon Goldsmith, Robert O'Callahan, Alexander Aike...
Software is a ubiquitous component of our daily life. We often depend on the correct working of software systems. Due to the difficulty and complexity of software systems, bugs an...
David Lo, Hong Cheng, Jiawei Han, Siau-Cheng Khoo,...
Software engineers often inspect program differences when reviewing others' code changes, when writing check-in comments, or when determining why a program behaves differentl...
Abstract. Today’s parallel computers with SMP nodes provide both multithreading and message passing as their modes of parallel execution. As a consequence, performance analysis a...