Reverse engineering of program code is the process of constructing a higher level abstraction of an implementation in order to facilitate the understanding of a system that may be...
Abstract. One of the most novel features of Casl, the Common Algebraic Specification Language, is the provision of so-called architectural specifications for describing the modular...
When software developers want to understand the reason for a program's behavior, they must translate their questions about the behavior into a series of questions about code,...
—Planning a complex software modification task imposes a high cognitive burden on developers, who must juggle navigating the software, understanding what they see with respect t...
Reid Holmes, Tristan Ratchford, Martin P. Robillar...
Developers undertaking a pragmatic reuse task must collect and reason about information that is spread throughout the source code of a system before they can understand the scope ...