… how programmers comprehend programs during software maintenance and evolution. Five
… The program comprehension process uses existing knowledge to acquire new knowledge …

… of software maintenance and evolution, whether they are conducted by empirical researchers
or by practitioners who are implementing a measurement-based improvement program. …

… software maintenance, evolution, and re-engineering purposes [383]. An important research
area in program understanding … constructing a mental model of the software system (see, eg…

… to program comprehension. As aforementioned software system is composed of program/…
insufficient or not available so maintenance personnel often have to rely on source code [2]. …

… accomplishing software evolution and software maintenance… inclusive terms such as ‘perfective
maintenance’. As has been … used for software evolution and software maintenance work. …

… maintenance and evolution; correct understanding of the system allows … Program
comprehension is one of the most frequently performed activities in software maintenance …

… the con sistency of source code comprehension strategies and com prehension effort …
tasks in software maintenance and evolution. We conducted an empirical study with software …

… program comprehension plays an important role in providing effective software maintenance
and enabling successful evolution of … on the role of program comprehension, we look at the …

… software evolution in the undergraduate curriculum. Section 6 discusses software maintenance
as a contrast to software evolution… of as-needed program comprehension. However it is …

… for program comprehension tasks. However, the coarse-grained nature of the data stored
by commit-based software … common questions related to software evolution. The experiment …