Syed Priom

Thoughts on a Bloody Victory

I don’t quite like the idea of Nationalism. It makes us take excessive pride in things we ourselves haven’t done. It makes us think we are right and the other side of the border is wrong. I wish we had no border. Still, my birthplace would have a name. I would grow up within its soil, […]

Praise For Mutation

Montréal mutates beautifully in Autumn – comes and brings a palette of colors – foxy red, dull brown and marmalade, lush and emerald green to golden, and lime turning to amber. “A tongue has one customer, the ear. A sugarcane flute has such effect because it was able to make sugar in the reedbed. The […]

On change propagation from one software entity to another

Predicting Change Propagation in Software Systems By Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt   Summary The paper addresses how a change in an entity of a software system is propagated to other entities. It explores the importance of better change propagation to maintain consistency among interdependent entities in a system. A heuristics based approach […]

Visualizing software programs with Codecrawler and Code City

CodeCrawler – An Information Visualization Tool for Program Comprehension By Michele Lanza, Stephane Ducasse, Harald Gall, Martin Pinzger Summary The paper introduces an information visualization tool called CodeCrawler that can be used for program comprehension and problem detection. CodeCrawler takes a lightweight approach and built with Smalltalk on top of Moose – a language-independent reengineering […]

The Effort to Understand Software Program Code

Quantifying Program Comprehension with Interaction Data By Roberto Minelli, Andrea Mocci, Michele Lanza and Takashi Kobayashi Summary The paper aims to answer an often-underestimated question: whether or not program comprehension occupies a large part of the software development process. The approach is to quantify comprehension time by analyzing data obtained from sessions – during which […]

Critique: Models for Comprehension of a Software Program

1. Program Comprehension during Software Maintenance and Evolution Armeliese von Mayrhauser, A. Marie Vans Colorado State University The paper aims to provide in-depth analysis of most notable program cognition models as well detailed comparison among them. The authors also introduce Integrated Metamodel to eventually improve the process of software maintenance and evolution. It identifies 5 […]