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IWPC
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Building Program Understanding Tools Using Visitor Combinators
Program understanding tools manipulate program represensuch as abstract syntax trees, control-flow graphs, or data-flow graphs. This paper deals with the use of visitor combinat...
Arie van Deursen, Joost Visser
AOSD
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Using natural language program analysis to locate and understand action-oriented concerns
Most current software systems contain undocumented high-level ideas implemented across multiple files and modules. When developers perform program maintenance tasks, they often wa...
David Shepherd, Zachary P. Fry, Emily Hill, Lori L...
ACSC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Integration of generic program analysis tools into a software development environment
Support for program understanding in development and maintenance tasks can be facilitated by program analysis techniques. Both control-flow and data-flow analysis can support pr...
Erica Glynn, Ian J. Hayes, Anthony MacDonald
ADAEUROPE
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Bauhaus - A Tool Suite for Program Analysis and Reverse Engineering
The maintenance and evolution of critical software with high requirements for reliability is an extremely demanding, time consuming and expensive task. Errors introduced by ad-hoc ...
Aoun Raza, Gunther Vogel, Erhard Plödereder
IWPC
1997
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Case Study of Domain-based Program Understanding
Program understanding relates a computer program to the goals and requirements it is designed to accomplish. Understanding techniques that rely only on source code analysis are li...
Richard Clayton, Spencer Rugaber, Lyman Taylor, Li...