Sciweavers

502 search results - page 21 / 101
» An empirical study on program comprehension with reactive pr...
Sort
View
IWPC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Adding Control-Flow to a Visual Data-Flow Representation
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-...
David Dearman, Anthony Cox, Maryanne Fisher
SERP
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Run-Time Cohesion Metrics: An Empirical Investigation
Cohesion is one of the fundamental measures of the 'goodness' of a software design. The most accepted and widely studied object-oriented cohesion metric is Chidamber and...
Áine Mitchell, James F. Power
VL
2005
IEEE
119views Visual Languages» more  VL 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
How Well Do Professional Developers Test with Code Coverage Visualizations? An Empirical Study
Despite years of availability of testing tools, professional software developers still seem to need better support to determine the effectiveness of their tests. Without improveme...
Joseph Lawrance, Steven Clarke, Margaret M. Burnet...
ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
14 years 13 days ago
An empirical study of optimizations in YOGI
Though verification tools are finding industrial use, the utility of engineering optimizations that make them scalable and usable is not widely known. Despite the fact that seve...
Aditya V. Nori, Sriram K. Rajamani
STVR
2002
88views more  STVR 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Empirical studies of test-suite reduction
Test-suite reduction techniques attempt to reduce the costs of saving and reusing test cases during software maintenance by eliminating redundant test cases from test suites. A po...
Gregg Rothermel, Mary Jean Harrold, Jeffery von Ro...