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CORR
2006
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Mental Representations Constructed by Experts and Novices in Object-Oriented Program Comprehension
Previous studies on program comprehension were carried out largely in the context of procedural languages. Our purpose is to develop and evaluate a cognitive model of object-orient...
Jean-Marie Burkhardt, Françoise Déti...
IWPC
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
gccXfront: Exploiting gcc as a Front End for Program Comprehension Tools via XML/XSLT
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 ...
Mark Hennessy, Brian A. Malloy, James F. Power
IWPC
2003
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
Experiences in Teaching Software Evolution and Program Comprehension
A large amount of research is devoted to software evolution and program understanding, but these topics are often neglected in software engineering curricula. The CCSE initiative ...
Arie van Deursen, Jean-Marie Favre, Rainer Koschke...
CSMR
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
RTFM (Read the Factual Mails) - Augmenting Program Comprehension with Remail
—The advent of globalization has led to the adoption of distributed software development as a common practice. One of its drawbacks -the absence of impromptu meetingsis tackled w...
Alberto Bacchelli, Michele Lanza, Vitezslav Humpa
IWPC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Reading the documentation of invoked API functions in program comprehension
Comprehending an unfamiliar code fragment requires an awareness of explicit usage directives that may be present in the documentation of some invoked functions. Since it is not pr...
Uri Dekel, James D. Herbsleb