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

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 …

This working group asserts that Program Comprehension (ProgComp) plays a critical part in
the process of writing programs. For example, this paper is written from a basic draft that was …

Software maintainers are task-oriented knowledge seekers. They focus on getting the
answers they need to complete a task and they use a variety of sources and strategies to do …

Understanding programs written by others is a difficult task. Most maintenance tasks in
software require an understanding of the source code as a first step. Unfortunately, in most …

Program comprehension accounts for a large portion of software development costs and
effort. The academic literature contains mainly research on program comprehension of short …

Program understanding is an integral part of the testing and maintenance phases of the
software life cycle. There have been numerous investigations of the influence of various …

Program Comprehension (PC) is a discipline of Software Engineering aimed at creating
models, methods, techniques and tools, based on a learning process and engineering …

This paper presents a baseline model of program understanding. Its components are the
working representation, the knowledge base, the goals and the strategies. According to the …

Program comprehension is a major time-consuming activity in software maintenance.
Understanding the underlying mechanisms of program comprehension is therefore …