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COMPSAC
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 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
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Facilitating Program Comprehension by Mining Association Rules from Source Code
Program comprehension is an important part of software maintenance, especially when program structure is complex and documentation is unavailable or outdated. Data mining can prod...
Christos Tjortjis, Loukas Sinos, Paul J. Layzell
MSR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using evolutionary annotations from change logs to enhance program comprehension
Evolutionary annotations are descriptions of how source code evolves over time. Typical source comments, given their static nature, are usually inadequate for describing how a pro...
Daniel M. Germán, Peter C. Rigby, Margaret-...
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
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
How Webmining and Coupling Metrics Improve Early Program Comprehension
During initial program comprehension, software engineers could benefit from knowing the most need-to-beunderstood classes in the system under study in order to kick-start their s...
Andy Zaidman, Bart Du Bois, Serge Demeyer