A theory of program comprehension: Joining vision science and program comprehension

YG Guéhéneuc - International Journal of Software Science and …, 2009 - igi-global.com
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Software comprehension–a review & research direction

MP O'brien - Department of Computer Science & …, 2003 - xyuan.myweb.cs.uwindsor.ca
Comprehending computer programs is one of the core software engineering activities.
Software comprehension is required when a programmer maintains, reuses, migrates …

Theories, tools and research methods in program comprehension: past, present and future

MA Storey - Software Quality Journal, 2006 - Springer
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Program comprehension: A short literature review

M Sulír - SCYR 2015: 15th Scientific Conference of Young …, 2015 - sulir.github.io
Program comprehension is a study of how programmers understand existing programs.
First, we delineate the research field and provide a brief overview of program …

A comprehensive review on software comprehension models

A Fekete, Z Porkoláb - Annales Mathematicae et Informaticae, 2020 - real.mtak.hu
Software comprehension is one of the most important among software development tasks
since most developers do not start a brand new software every time they switch jobs or get …

Processes in computer program comprehension

S Weidenbeck - Papers presented at the first workshop on empirical …, 1986 - dl.acm.org
Processes in computer program comprehension | Papers presented at the first workshop on
empirical studies of programmers on Empirical studies of programmers ACM Digital Library …

Performing tasks can improve program comprehension mental model of novice developers: An empirical approach

AA Shargabi, SA Aljunid, M Annamalai… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Program comprehension is challenging for many novice developers. Literature indicates that
program comprehension is greatly influenced by the specific purpose of reading a program …

[引用][C] Comprehension strategies in programming

N Pennington - Empirical studies of programmers: second workshop, 1987 - dl.acm.org
Comprehension strategies in programming | Empirical studies of programmers: second
workshop skip to main content ACM Digital Library home ACM home Google, Inc. (search) …

Program inspection to interconnect behavioral and operational view for program comprehension

M Berón, PR Henriques, MJ Pereira, R Uzal - 2007 - bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt
Program Comprehension (PC) is a discipline of Software Engineering aimed at creating
models, methods, techniques and tools, based on a learning process and engineering …

Challenges in program comprehension

R Tiarks, T Röhm - Softwaretechnik-Trends, 2012 - Springer
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 …