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

Publisher Summary This chapter describes existing models of comprehension, a model of
comprehension that is an integration, and synthesis of the previous models. It discusses the …

Changes in an organization's internal and external environment impose numerous demands
on management information systems (MIS). Since few MIS can be designed to fully …

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 …

The software comprehension process has been conceptualized as being either 'top‐down'or
'bottom‐up'in nature. We formally distinguish between two comprehension processes that …

Code cognition models examine how programmers understand program code. The authors
survey the current knowledge in this area by comparing six program comprehension …

Program comprehension as a subtask of software maintenance and evolution consumes
about half of the time spent by the developers who have to explore a systems' source code …

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

There exists an extensive literature on vision science, on the one hand, and on program
comprehension, on the other hand. However, these two domains of research have been so …

Comprehension strategies in programming | Empirical studies of programmers: second
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