IEEEICCI
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
The paper describes the process of program comprehension from the point of view of constructivist theory of learning. According to this view, program comprehension starts with the...
IWPC
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2003
IEEE
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part of software maintenance, especially when program structure is complex and documentation is unavailable or outdated.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...
IWPC
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2003
IEEE
Traditional approaches for program comprehension use static program analysis or dynamic program analysis in the form of execution traces. Our approach, however, makes use of runti...
PASTE
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
A context-sensitive analysis is an analysis in which program elements are assigned sets of properties that depend upon the context in which they occur. For analyses on imperative ...
UML
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Understanding and maintenance of complex information spaces is often supported through visual interfaces. These interfaces must be highly flexible in order to adapt to both the u...
VL
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Large software projects often require a programmer to make changes to unfamiliar source code. This paper describes a set of tools, called Team Tracks, designed to ease program com...
IWPC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Program comprehension research can be characterized by both the theories that provide rich explanations about how programmers comprehend software, as well as the tools that are us...
IWPC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Previous studies have shown that novices do not tend to extract or use data-flow information during program comprehension. However, for impact analysis and similar tasks, data-ï¬...
CSMR
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Well-designed object-oriented programs typically consist of a few key classes that work tightly together to provide the bulk of the functionality. As such, these key classes are e...
WCRE
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
Software maintenance and evolution can be made easier if program comprehension techniques are used. Understanding a software system would typically necessitate a combination of st...