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IWPC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Identifying Architectural Change Patterns in Object-Oriented Systems
As an object-oriented system evolves, its architecture tends to drift away from the original design. Knowledge of how the system has changed at coarse-grained levels is key to und...
Xinyi Dong, Michael W. Godfrey
IWPC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Support for Understanding GUI Programs by Visualizing Execution Traces Synchronized with Screen Transitions
To support understanding a specific GUI functionality in a program, we propose a visualization technique that presents the correspondence between the screens before and after the...
Tatsuya Sato, Buntarou Shizuki, Jiro Tanaka
IWPC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Ensuring Well-Behaved Usage of APIs through Syntactic Constraints
Libraries are the most widespreaded form of software reuse. In order to properly use a library API, its clients should fulfill a series of (many times implicit) assumptions made ...
Martin Feilkas, Daniel Ratiu
IWPC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Assessing Software Archives with Evolutionary Clusters
The way in which a system’s software archive is partitioned influences the evolvability of that system. The partition of a software archive is mostly assessed by looking at the...
Adam Vanya, Lennart Holland, A. Steven Klusener, P...
IWPC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Re-Engineering a Reverse Engineering Portal to a Distributed SOA
REportal is an existing web-based reverse engineering portal web site that provides access to a suite of reverse engineering and program comprehension tools via a web This abstrac...
William M. Mongan, Maxim Shevertalov, Spiros Manco...
IWPC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Mendel: A Model, Metrics, and Rules to Understand Class Hierarchies
Inheritance is an important mechanism when developing object-oriented programs with class-based programming languages: it enables subtyping, polymorphism, and code reuse. Inherita...
Simon Denier, Yann-Gaël Guéhéne...
IWPC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Tool for Visual Understanding of Source Code Dependencies
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...
IWPC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Reusing Program Investigation Knowledge for Code Understanding
Software maintenance tasks typically involve an important amount of program investigation effort on the part of software developers. To what extent can we benefit from prior prog...
Martin P. Robillard, Putra Manggala
IWPC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The Reuse of Grammars with Embedded Semantic Actions
Reusing syntax specifications without embedded arbitrary semantic actions is straightforward because the semantic analysis phases of new applications can feed off trees or other ...
Terence Parr
IWPC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Identifying Word Relations in Software: A Comparative Study of Semantic Similarity Tools
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, ...