Integrative levels of program comprehension describe the evolution of our knowledge about a program from low-level program elements through successive and higher orders of knowled...
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, ...
Source code investigation is one of the most time consuming activities during software maintenance and evolution, yet currently available tool support suffers from several shortco...
Technology to support system comprehension tends to reflect either a "bottom-up" or "top-down" approach. Bottom-up approaches attempt to derive system models f...
Kurt C. Wallnau, Paul C. Clements, Edwin J. Morris...
We present an integrated approach aimed at predicting layout area needed to implement a behavioral description for a given performance goal. Our approach is novel because: (1) it ...
Seong Yong Ohm, Fadi J. Kurdahi, Nikil Dutt, Min X...