Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or
how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We …

Research in program comprehension has evolved considerably over the past decades.
However, only little is known about how developers practice program comprehension in …

Program comprehension is the process of acquiring knowledge about a computer program.
Increased knowledge enables such activities as bug correction, enhancement, reuse, and …

Comprehension strategies in programming | Empirical studies of programmers: second
workshop skip to main content ACM Digital Library home ACM home Google, Inc. (search) …

Program comprehension research can be characterized by both the theories that provide
rich explanations about how programmers understand software, as well as the tools that are …

Comprehending computer programs is one of the core software engineering activities.
Software comprehension is required when a programmer maintains, reuses, migrates …

Department of Psychology Rutgers–The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ
08903 koeneman@ paul. rutgers. edu Program comprehension is a complex problem …

In this paper, we explore the question of whether program understanding tools enhance or
change the way that programmers understand programs. The strategies that programmers …

Processes in computer program comprehension | Papers presented at the first workshop on
empirical studies of programmers on Empirical studies of programmers ACM Digital Library …

During software development and maintenance, developers spend a considerable amount
of time on program comprehension activities. Previous studies show that program …