Software maintenance is the most time consuming and costly phase of the software
development lifecycle. For every dollar spent on creating a new software system, nine …

Starting from the first investigations with strictly functional languages, reactive programming
has been proposed as THE programming paradigm for reactive applications. The …

Program and system comprehension are vital parts of the software maintenance process.
We discuss the need for both perspectives and describe two methods that may be integrated …

Abstract Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are often argued to have a simpler notation than
general-purpose languages (GPLs), since the notation is adapted to the specific problem …

Many software developers struggle to understand code written by others, leading to
increased maintenance costs. Research on program comprehension to date has primarily …

We present preliminary results of an experiment in computer program comprehension that
was conducted to find out whether visual strategies can characterize low-and high …

Existing source code-based program comprehension approaches analyze either the code
itself or the comments/identifiers but not both. In this research, we combine code …

Understanding the software system is known as program comprehension and is a cognitive
process. This cognitive process is the driving force behind creation of software that is easier …

This study empirically evaluates Hale and Haworth's cognitive processes model for
programmers engaged in software debugging. They claim that across all levels of …