Compiler and programming language implementation courses are integral parts of many computer science curricula. However, the range of topics necessary to teach in such a course ar...
In situations in which developers are not familiar with a system or its documentation is inadequate, the system’s source code becomes the only reliable source of information. Unf...
Vladimir Jakobac, Alexander Egyed, Nenad Medvidovi...
Many small and medium-sized systems have little or no design documentation, which makes program understanding during maintenance enormously more difficult when performed by outsi...
For software maintenance and evolution, a common problem is to understand how each requirement is implemented in the source code. The basic solution of this problem is to find the...
Many program comprehension tools use graphs to visualize and analyze source code. The main issue is that existing approaches create graphs overloaded with too much information. Gr...
Martin Pinzger, Katja Grafenhain, Patrick Knab, Ha...