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 […]