DocumentCode
1935844
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
fYear
1998
fDate
24-26 Jun 1998
Firstpage
164
Lastpage
172
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Program Comprehension, 1998. IWPC '98. Proceedings., 6th International Workshop on
Conference_Location
Ischia
ISSN
1092-8138
Print_ISBN
0-8186-8560-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WPC.1998.693345
Filename
693345
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