Context: Programmers' mental models represent their knowledge and understanding of
programs, programming concepts, and programming in general. They guide programmers' …

The relevance of code comprehension in a developer's daily work was recognized more
than 40 years ago. Consequently, many experiments were conducted to find out how …

Background Modeling abilities play an important role in engineering. The creation and use
of representations is a central aspect of modeling, and students who are learning to model …

Reverse engineering is a complex process essential to software-security tasks such as
vulnerability discovery and malware analysis. Significant research and engineering effort …

Many problem factors in the software development phase affect the maintainability of the
delivered software systems. Therefore, understanding software development problem …

Management has turned to software engineering tools designed to support software
maintenance as a potential solution to maintenance productivity and quality problems. Once …

Program comprehension concerns the ability to understand code written by others. But not
all code is the same. We use an experimental platform fashioned as an online game-like …

When a human activity requires a lot of expertise and very specialized cognitive skills that
are poorly understood by the general population, it is often consideredan art.'Different …

This article reviews the technique of verbal protocol analysis and gives a profile of its use
within software engineering research over the last two decades. An overview is given of the …

Recently, the first two in a series of planned comprehension experiments were performed to
measure the effect of the control structure diagram (CSD) on program comprehensibility …