Program comprehension through multiple simultaneous views: a session with VinEd

Author

Sajaniemi, Jorma

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Joensun Univ., Finland

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

99

Lastpage

108

Abstract

Program comprehension is a hard cognitive task that can be promoted by the use of views, i.e., automatically created concrete representations of a program revealing different aspects of its structure and behavior. VinEd is a view-based editor that allows users to add their own views to the system. The paper analyzes the VinEd approach by presenting a scenario of a session where VinEd is used in a comprehension task. The scenario is analyzed from a cognitive point of view. The VinEd approach is also evaluated using two requirement lists proposed for software exploration tools

Keywords

cognitive systems; configuration management; reverse engineering; text editing; VinEd; automatically created concrete representations; cognitive viewpoint; comprehension task; hard cognitive task; multiple simultaneous views; program comprehension; requirement lists; software exploration tools; view-based editor; Application software; Cognitive science; Computer languages; Computer science; Concrete; Navigation; Programming profession; Software maintenance; Transformers; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Program Comprehension, 2000. Proceedings. IWPC 2000. 8th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Limerick

ISSN

1092-8138

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0656-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPC.2000.852484

Filename

852484