The use of dynamic information to aid in software understanding is a common practice nowadays. One of the many approaches concerns the comprehension of execution traces. A major i...
Bas Cornelissen, Danny Holten, Andy Zaidman, Leon ...
Eye-tracking equipment is used to assess how well a subject comprehends UML class diagrams. The results of a study are presented in which eye movements are captured in a non-obtru...
Shehnaaz Yusuf, Huzefa H. Kagdi, Jonathan I. Malet...
A workflow is a computerized specification of a business process. A workflow describes how tasks are executed and ordered following business policies. E-commerce systems implement...
A commonly used strategy to address the scalability challenge in object-oriented reverse engineering is to synthesize coarse-grained representations, such as package diagrams. How...
Programmers need tools to help explore large software systems when performing software evolution tasks. A variety of tools have been created to improve the effectiveness of such e...
Brian de Alwis, Gail C. Murphy, Martin P. Robillar...
The field of program comprehension is characterized by both the continuing development of new tools and techniques and the adaptation of existing techniques to address program co...
Massimiliano Di Penta, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt, Eilee...
Java developers often use decompilers to aid reverse engineering and obfuscators to prevent it. Decompilers translate low-level class files to Java source and can produce “good...
Nomair A. Naeem, Michael Batchelder, Laurie J. Hen...
A repository of task structures can reveal important latent knowledge about the development of a software system. Although approaches have been proposed to recover artifacts withi...
An approach to recover/discover traceability links between software artifacts via the examination of a software system’s version history is presented. A heuristic-based approach...
Huzefa H. Kagdi, Jonathan I. Maletic, Bonita Shari...