… , eg, inspecting console and breakpoints in IDE, or reading and understanding tutorials in …
of program comprehension activities, through a field study of program comprehension in …

… Our goal is to learn how developers in the industry comprehend software and how they access
and … The goal of this study is to explore how program comprehension is done in software …

… studies, there have been no quantitative evaluations to the present day. This … experiment
to quantitatively measure the added value of trace visualization for program comprehension. …

… we found to be important to program comprehension. Since we are interested in software
system comprehension as it is commonly practiced in the field, we performed interviews with …

… in the area of program comprehension to join forces to design and carry … studies related to
program comprehension, including observational studies, controlled experiments, case studies…

… program comprehension … research question stems from our goal of understanding the
impact of two occurrences of Blob and Spaghetti Code anti-patterns on program comprehension…

… memory—all processes that fit well to our current understanding of bottom-up program
comprehension [40]. In this paper, we contrast bottom-up comprehension with comprehension …

… This paper reports on a software understanding field study during the enhancement of largescale
software… This study reports on an observational field study of professional maintenance …

… to ease program comprehension by showing the … studies, a laboratory study and a field
study, were run to evaluate the effectiveness of these techniques. The results of the two studies …

… A lab study had several advantages over a field study. We could compare participants’
behavior on exactly the same tasks, use tasks designed to require understanding design, and …