Dowsing: a tool framework for domain-oriented browsing of software artifacts

Author

Clayton, Richard ; Rugaber, Spencer ; Wills, Linda

Author_Institution

Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

13-16 Oct 1998

Firstpage

204

Lastpage

207

Abstract

Program understanding relates a computer program to the goals and requirements it is designed to accomplish. Application-domain analysis is a source of information that can aid program understanding by guiding the source-code analysis and providing structure to its results. The authors use the term “dowsing” to describe the process of exploring software and the related documentation from an application-domain point of view. They have designed a tool framework to support dowsing and have populated it with a variety of commercial and research tools

Keywords

reverse engineering; software maintenance; software tools; system documentation; application-domain analysis; computer program; documentation; domain-oriented browsing; program understanding; software artifact; software exploration; source-code analysis; tool framework; Application software; Computer languages; Documentation; Information analysis; Information resources; Pattern analysis; Reverse engineering; Software maintenance; Software tools; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automated Software Engineering, 1998. Proceedings. 13th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8750-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASE.1998.732642

Filename

732642