Expressiveness and effectiveness of program comprehension: Thoughts on future research directions

Author

Maletic, Jonathan I. ; Kagdi, Huzefa

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Kent State Univ., Kent, OH

fYear

2008

fDate

Sept. 28 2008-Oct. 4 2008

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

37

Abstract

A number of research challenges in the area of program comprehension are presented. The expressiveness and effectiveness of program comprehension are discussed, and research directions are organized along these two axes. Both fundament research issues are raised along with new applications for program comprehension methods. The work advocates the investigation of better measures, further empirical studies, and controlled experiments to assess the effectiveness of program comprehension techniques.

Keywords

program visualisation; reverse engineering; software maintenance; software prototyping; program comprehension effectiveness; program comprehension expressiveness; program visualization; software change; software evolution; software maintenance; Application software; Area measurement; Computer science; Libraries; Programming profession; Reverse engineering; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software measurement; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers of Software Maintenance, 2008. FoSM 2008.

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2654-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2655-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FOSM.2008.4659246

Filename

4659246