A structured demonstration of five program comprehension tools: lessons learnt

Author

Sim, Susan Elliott ; Storey, Margaret-Anne ; Winter, Andreas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Toronto Univ., Toronto, Ont., Canada

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

210

Lastpage

212

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to report on a structured demonstration for comparing program comprehension tools. Five teams of program comprehension tool designers applied their tools to a set of maintenance tasks on a common subject system. By applying a variety of reverse engineering techniques to a predefined set of tasks, the tools can be compared using a common playing field. A secondary topic of discussion will address the development of “guinea pig” systems and how to use them in a structured demonstration for evaluating software tools

Keywords

reverse engineering; software maintenance; software performance evaluation; software selection; software tools; common playing field; common subject system; guinea pig systems; maintenance tasks; program comprehension tool designers; reverse engineering techniques; software tool evaluation; structured demonstration; Computer industry; Computer science; Conferences; Data mining; Educational institutions; Industrial relations; Reverse engineering; Software architecture; Software systems; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 2000. Proceedings. Seventh Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Brisbane, Qld.

ISSN

1095-1350

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0881-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.2000.891471

Filename

891471