Taupe: Towards Understanding Program Comprehension

Taupe: Towards Understanding Program Comprehension. Gu�h�neuc, Y. In Erdogmus, H. & Stroulia, E., editors, Proceedings of the 16th IBM Centers for Advanced Studies Conference (CASCON), pages 1–13, October, 2006. ACM Press. 13 pages.

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Program comprehension is a very important activity during the development and the maintenance of programs. This activity has been actively studied in the past decades to present software engineers with the most accurate and—hopefully—most useful pieces of information on the organisation, algorithms, executions, evolution, and documentation of a program. Yet, only few work tried to understand concretely how software engineers obtain and use this information. Software engineers mainly use sight to obtain information about a program, usually from source code or class diagrams. Therefore, we use eye-tracking to collect data about the use of class diagrams by software engineers during program comprehension. We introduce a new visualisation technique to aggregate and to present the collected data. We also report the results and surprising insights gained from two case studies.

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   ABSTRACT     = {Program comprehension is a very important activity 
      during the development and the maintenance of programs. This activity 
      has been actively studied in the past decades to present software 
      engineers with the most accurate and&mdash;hopefully&mdash;most 
      useful pieces of information on the organisation, algorithms, 
      executions, evolution, and documentation of a program. Yet, only few 
      work tried to understand concretely how software engineers obtain and 
      use this information. Software engineers mainly use sight to obtain 
      information about a program, usually from source code or class 
      diagrams. Therefore, we use eye-tracking to collect data about the 
      use of class diagrams by software engineers during program 
      comprehension. We introduce a new visualisation technique to 
      aggregate and to present the collected data. We also report the 
      results and surprising insights gained from two case studies.}
}

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