Title :
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
fDate :
Sept. 28 2008-Oct. 4 2008
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/FOSM.2008.4659246
