DocumentCode
2196988
Title
Evaluating software maintenance support tools for their support of program comprehension
Author
Von Mayrhauser, Anneliese ; Lang, Steve
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA
Volume
4
fYear
1998
fDate
21-28 Mar 1998
Firstpage
173
Abstract
New tools that purport to help programmers understand software during maintenance and evolution are appearing on the market with increasing frequency. Just how good are they at supporting software comprehension is frequently only “demonstrated” by anecdote or hearsay. This paper reports on an analysis infrastructure for formally performing such evaluation, and on an application of the evaluation instrument to an existing tool, Lemma
Keywords
software maintenance; software performance evaluation; software tools; Lemma; analysis infrastructure; evolution; maintenance; program comprehension; programmers; software comprehension; software maintenance support tools; Application software; Cognition; Computer science; Frequency; Instruments; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Programming profession; Software maintenance; Software tools;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Aerospace Conference, 1998 IEEE
Conference_Location
Snowmass at Aspen, CO
ISSN
1095-323X
Print_ISBN
0-7803-4311-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/AERO.1998.682191
Filename
682191
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