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CALCO
2005
Springer
109views Mathematics» more  CALCO 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Final Semantics for Event-Pattern Reactive Programs
Event-pattern reactive programs are front-end programs for distributed reactive components that preprocess an incoming stream of event stimuli. Their purpose is to recognize tempor...
César Sánchez, Henny B. Sipma, Matte...
VL
2002
IEEE
118views Visual Languages» more  VL 2002»
14 years 16 days ago
Novice Comprehension of Programs Using Task-Specific and Non-Task-Specific Constructs
This study examines the comprehension and modification by novices of programs written with taskspecific and non-task-specific constructs. Teachers who write programs for use in th...
Alec Engebretson, Susan Wiedenbeck
IWPC
2003
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
Using Run-Time Data for Program Comprehension
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...
Thomas Gschwind, Johann Oberleitner, Martin Pinzge...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Learning from mistakes: a comprehensive study on real world concurrency bug characteristics
The reality of multi-core hardware has made concurrent programs pervasive. Unfortunately, writing correct concurrent programs is difficult. Addressing this challenge requires adva...
Shan Lu, Soyeon Park, Eunsoo Seo, Yuanyuan Zhou
VL
2005
IEEE
135views Visual Languages» more  VL 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Easing Program Comprehension by Sharing Navigation Data
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...
Robert DeLine, Mary Czerwinski, George G. Robertso...