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 …

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

A key desideratum for many software comprehension tools is to reduce the mental burdens
of software engineers. That is, the tools should support cognition. This key benefit is difficult …

As programs become more complex and larger, the sheer volume of information to be
comprehended by developers becomes daunting. Software development is fraught with …

Past research on software comprehension tools has produced a wealth of lessons in
building good tools. However, our explanations of these tools tend to be weakly grounded in …

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 …

A large body of empirical work in the software comprehension area has focused on the
cognitive processes that programmers undertake. However, as yet, little work exists on …

This study examines the effect of individual differences on the program comprehension
strategies of users working with an unfamiliar programming system. Participants of varying …

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

The paper describes a study that explores the relationship between program slicing and
code understanding gained while debugging. The study consisted of an experiment that …