Title :
Program understanding behavior during adaptation of large scale software
Author :
Von Mayrhauser, Anneliese ; Vans, A. Marie
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA
Abstract :
We report on a software understanding study during adaptation, of large-scale software. Participants were professional software maintenance engineers. The paper reports on the general understanding process, the types of actions programmers preferred during the adaptation task, and the level of abstraction, at which they were working. The results of the observation are also interpreted in terms of the information needs of these software engineers
Keywords :
reverse engineering; software maintenance; abstraction; adaptation task; general understanding process; information needs; large-scale software adaptation; program understanding behavior; software maintenance; Computer bugs; Computer industry; Computer science; Database systems; Design for experiments; Large-scale systems; Programming profession; Shafts; Software maintenance; Software systems;
Conference_Titel :
Program Comprehension, 1998. IWPC '98. Proceedings., 6th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Ischia
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8560-3
DOI :
10.1109/WPC.1998.693345
