The area of program comprehension comprises a vast body of literature, with numerous
conflicting models having been proposed. Models are typically grounded in experimental …

Pseudo-code written in natural language can aid the comprehension of source code in
unfamiliar programming languages. However, the great majority of source code has no …

Software developers spend a great deal of time reading and understanding code that is
poorly-documented, written by other developers, or developed using differing styles. During …

This paper explores the use of volumetric features for action recognition. First, we propose a
novel method to correlate spatio-temporal shapes to video clips that have been …

Programmers are frequently tasked with modifying, enhancing, and extending applications.
To perform these tasks, programmers must understand existing code by forming mental …

The names of variables and functions serve as implicit documentation and are instrumental
for program comprehension. But choosing good meaningful names is hard. We perform a …

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

Programmers often search for Open Source code to use in their projects. To understand how
and why programmers search for source code, we onducted a web-based survey and …

Software readability and comprehension are important factors in software maintenance.
There is a large body of research on software measurement, but the actual factors that make …

Change-based code review, eg, in the form of pull requests, is the dominant style of code
review in practice. An important option to improve review's efficiency is cognitive support for …