An important software engineering artefact used by developers and maintainers to assist in
software comprehension and maintenance is source code documentation. It provides …

Source code lexicon plays a paramount role in software quality: poor lexicon can lead to
poor comprehensibility and even increase software fault-proneness. For this reason …

Feature location is a program comprehension activity, the goal of which is to identify source
code entities that implement a functionality. Recent feature location techniques apply text …

Developers have a lot of freedom in writing comments as well as in choosing identifiers and
method names. These are intentional in nature and provide a different relevance of …

The paper presents an approach that combines conceptual and evolutionary techniques to
support change impact analysis in source code. Conceptual couplings capture the extent to …

Motorola's second-generation RISC microprocessor, which uses advanced techniques for
exploiting instruction-level parallelism, including superscalar instruction issue, our-of-order …

Context Software systems are often shipped with defects. Whenever a bug is reported,
developers use the information available in the associated report to locate source code …

The paper presents an approach helping developers to maintain source code identifiers and
comments consistent with high-level artifacts. Specifically, the approach computes and …

Annotating programs with natural language comments is a common programming practice
to increase the readability of code. While researchers have attempted specific tasks like …

Decision making is one of the basic cognitive processes of human behaviors by which a
preferred option or a course of actions is chosen from among a set of alternatives based on …