CSDL - Proceedings W

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Understanding Function Behaviors through Program Slicing (Abstract)

pp. 9

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Towards a Framework for Program Understanding (Abstract)

Scott R. Tilley, Carnegie Mellon University

Dennis B. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University

Santanu Paul, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

pp. 19

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Session 2: Tools and Environments: Session Chair: D. Notkin, University of Washington, USA

A Workbench for Program Comprehension during Software Maintenance (Abstract)

pp. 30

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Rapid Development of Simple, Custom Program Analysis Tools (Abstract)

Kevin J. Sullivan, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

pp. 40

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A Method for The Formal Testing of Program Visualization Tools (Abstract)

T.C. Nicholas Graham, York University

pp. 45

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Toward a Constraint-Satisfaction Framework for Evaluating Program-Understanding Algorithms (Abstract)

Alex Quilici, University of Hawaii

Steven Woods, University of Waterloo

pp. 55

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Session 4: Comprehension Experiments and Estimation: Session Chair: G. Visaggio, University of Bari, Italy

On the Role of Hypotheses during Opportunistic Understanding While Porting Large Scale Code (Abstract)

A. von Mayrhauser, Colorado State University

A. M. Vans, Colorado State University

pp. 68

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Effort Estimation for Program Comprehension (Abstract)

P. Fiore, Basica spa

F. Lanubile, Basica spa

G. Visaggio, University of Bari, Italy

pp. 78

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Session 5: Software Evolution: Session Chair: P. Feiler, Software Engineering Institute, USA

On Inserting Program Understanding Technology into the Software Change Process (Abstract)

Kenny Wong, University of Victoria

pp. 90

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Greater Understanding Through Maintainer Driven Traceability (Abstract)

C. Boldyreff, Centre for Software Maintenance, University of Durham, Durham, UK.

E.L. Burd, Centre for Software Maintenance, University of Durham, Durham, UK.

R.M. Hather, Centre for Software Maintenance, University of Durham, Durham, UK.

M. Mum-o, Centre for Software Maintenance, University of Durham, Durham, UK.

E.J. Younger, Centre for Software Maintenance, University of Durham, Durham, UK.

pp. 100

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Extracting Business Rules from Source Code (Abstract)

Harry M. Sneed, SES Software-Engineering Service GmbH

Katalin Erdos, SES Software-Engineering Service GmbH

pp. 240

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Session 6: Domain-Specific Program Comprehension: Session Chair: J. Ning, Andersen Consulting, USA

Comprehension of Safety-Critical Systems Using Domain-Specific Languages (Abstract)

Tim Bull, University of Durham

pp. 108

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Scalable Interfaces to Support Program Comprehension (Abstract)

Wayne Citrin, University of Colorado

Carlos Santiago, University of Colorado

Benjamin Zorn, University of Colorado

pp. 123

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Interprocedural analysis for program comprehension by specialization (Abstract)

S. Blazy, CEDRIC IIE, Evry, France

P. Facon, CEDRIC IIE, Evry, France

pp. 133

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Session 7: Pattern Matching Algorithms: Session Chair: H. Gall, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Fast, Flexible Syntactic Pattern Matching and Processing (Abstract)

William G. Griswold, University of California, San Diego

Darren C. Atkinson, University of California, San Diego

Collin McCurdy, Rice University

pp. 144

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A Formal Architectural Design Patterns-Based Approach to Software Understanding (Abstract)

P.S.C. Alencar, University of Waterloo

D.D. Cowan, University of Waterloo

T. Kuntz, University of Waterloo

C.J.P. Lucena, University of Waterloo

pp. 154

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PAP Recognizer: A Tool for Automatic Recognition of Parallelizable Patterns (Abstract)

Beniamino Di Martino, University of Vienna

Giulio Iannello, Universita' di Napoli

pp. 164

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Session 9: Software Architecture Comprehension: Session Chair: A. Lakhotia, University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA

The Gadfly: An Approach to Architectural-Level System Comprehension (Abstract)

Kurt Wallnau, Carnegie Mellon University

Paul Clements, Carnegie Mellon University

Ed Morris, Carnegie Mellon University

Robert Krut, Carnegie Mellon University

pp. 178

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Understanding the architecture of software systems (Abstract)

R. Fiutem, Istituto per la Ricerca Sci. e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy

E. Merlo, Istituto per la Ricerca Sci. e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy

G. Antoniol, Istituto per la Ricerca Sci. e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy

P. Tonella, Istituto per la Ricerca Sci. e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy

pp. 187

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Session 10: Hierarchical Program Comprehension: Session Chair: E. Merlo, Ecole Polytechnique, Canada

Evaluating process clusters to support automatic program understanding (Abstract)

T. Kunz, Dept. of Comput. Sci., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

pp. 198

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Improving Program Understanding by Unfolding Layers of Interacting Patterns (Abstract)

Rene R. Kloesch, University of California, Irvine, USA

Roland T. Mittermeir, University Klagenfurt, Austria, Europe

pp. 208

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Experiences in Automatic Leveling of Data Flow Diagrams (Abstract)

Michael Doorley, Tom Sawyer Software Berkeley, CA 94710

Anthony Cahill, University of Limerick, Ireland

pp. 218

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Derivation and Presentation of an Abstract Program Space for Ada (Abstract)

Paul A. Bailes, The University of Queensland QLD 4072 Australia

Paul Burnim, The University of Queensland QLD 4072 Australia

Murray Chapman, The University of Queensland QLD 4072 Australia

Dan Johnston, The University of Queensland QLD 4072 Australia

pp. 230

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Author Index (PDF)

pp. 248