Frequent patterns in program executions represent recurring sequences of events. These patterns can be used to reveal the hidden structures of a program, and ease the comprehensio...
While code understanding is the primary program comprehension activity, it is quite challenging to recognize the application requirements from code, since they have usually been o...
Mohammad El-Ramly, Eleni Stroulia, Paul G. Sorenso...
Modern software systems are typically large and complex, making comprehension of these systems extremely difficult. Experienced programmers comprehend code by seamlessly processi...
Giriprasad Sridhara, Emily Hill, Lori L. Pollock, ...
This paper presents a methodology for knowledge acquisition from source code. We use data mining to support semiautomated software maintenance and comprehension and provide practi...
Teaching pupils the ideas behind objects in programming languages can be difficult since these concepts are mostly and not comprehensible at first sight. Etoys as a visual progra...
Michael Haupt, Michael Perscheid, Robert Hirschfel...