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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference, 1998 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Snowmass at Aspen, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4311-5
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.1998.682191
