The purpose of this panel is to report on a structured demonstration for comparing program comprehension tools. Five program comprehension tool designers applied their tools to a ...
Susan Elliott Sim, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Andrea...
This paper describes a structured tool demonstration, a hybrid evaluation technique that combines elements from experiments, case studies, and technology demonstrations. Developer...
Parsing programming languages is an essential component of the front end of most program comprehension tools. Languages such as C++ can be difficult to parse and so it can prove ...
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...
A challenge of existing program comprehension approaches is to provide consistent and flexible representations for software systems. Maintainers have to match their mental models ...