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IWPC
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Rapid System Understanding: Two COBOL Case Studies
Rapid system understanding is required in the planning, feasibility assessment and cost estimating phases of a system renovation project. In this paper, we apply a number of analy...
Arie van Deursen, Tobias Kuipers
IWPC
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Using Automatic Clustering to Produce High-Level System Organizations of Source Code
This paper describes a collection of algorithms that we developed and implemented to facilitate the automatic recovery of the modular structure of a software system from its sourc...
Spiros Mancoridis, Brian S. Mitchell, C. Rorres, Y...
IWPC
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Archetypal Source Code Searches: A Survey of Software Developers and Maintainers
In this study, we conducted a survey to generate archetypes of source code searching by programmers across maintenance tasks. Using a questionnaire on a web page, we obtained 69 r...
Susan Elliott Sim, Charles L. A. Clarke, Richard C...
IWPC
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Pattern Visualization for Software Comprehension
Cognitive science emphasizes the strength of visual formalisms for human learning and problem solving. In software engineering, a clear, visual presentation of a system's arc...
Reinhard Schauer, Rudolf K. Keller
IWPC
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
DIME: A Direct Manipulation Environment for Evolutionary Development of Software
This paper presents an overview of the DIME environment (DIrect Manipulation Environment) being developed by the author. The paper presents the DIME vision, its catalogue of evolu...
Arun Lakhotia
IWPC
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Design Pattern Recovery in Object-Oriented Software
An approach to recover object oriented design patterns from design and code is presented. The pattern recovery process is based on a multi-stage filtering strategy to avoid combin...
Giuliano Antoniol, Roberto Fiutem, L. Cristoforett...