Software measures are often used to assess program comprehension, although their
applicability is discussed controversially. Often, their application is based on plausibility …

Achieving and maintaining high software quality is most dependent on how easily the
software engineer least familiar with the system can understand the system's code …

Program comprehension is the main activity of the software developers. Although there has
been substantial research to support the programmer, the high amount of time developers …

Program comprehension is close related to program complexity. In order to analyze program
complexity much effort has been spent to measure the complexity of programs. For this …

It is common knowledge that program comprehension takes up a substantial part of software
development. This" urban legend" is based on work that dates back decades, which throws …

Program comprehension is an important aspect of developing and maintaining software, as
programmers spend most of their time comprehending source code. Thus, it is the focus of …

Recent empirical studies identified an interest of software developers in high-level usage
information, ie Why and how end users employ a software application. Furthermore, recent …

A number of research challenges in the area of program comprehension are presented. The
expressiveness and effectiveness of program comprehension are discussed, and research …

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

Program comprehension can make a unique contribution to the field of software engineering
because it is feasible to validate its claims with inexpensive experiments. To fully realize this …