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Program comprehension

Known as: Program understanding 
Program comprehension ("program understanding", "source code comprehension") is a domain of computer science concerned with the ways software… 
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Computer programming

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2012
2012
Understanding Ajax applications by connecting client and server-side execution traces
Ajax-enabled Web applications are a new breed of highly interactive, highly dynamic Web applications. Although Ajax allows… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
DIOTA: Dynamic Instrumentation, Optimization and Transformation of Applications
In this paper, we describeDIOTA, a novel method for instrumenting binaries. The technique correctly deals with programs that… 
2001
2001
Data dependency elicitation in database reverse engineering
Database reverse engineering (DBRE) attempts to recover the technical and semantic specifications of the persistent data of… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Folding: an approach to enable program understanding of preprocessed languages
Since the early days of programming, preprocessors have been used to increase the expressiveness of programming languages. As a… 
2000
2000
Dependence analysis of Java bytecode
  • Jianjun Zhao
  • Proceedings 24th Annual International Computer…
  • 2000
  • Corpus ID: 17545326
Understanding program dependencies in a computer program is essential for many software engineering tasks such as program… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Effective whole-program analysis in the presence of pointers
Understanding large software systems is difficult. Traditionally, automated tools are used to assist program understanding… 
1998
1998
Do program transformations help reverse engineering?
  • K. Bennett
  • Proceedings. International Conference on Software…
  • 1998
  • Corpus ID: 7575029
Program transformations have been advocated as a method for accomplishing reverse engineering. The hypothesis is that the… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Flow Insensitive C++ Pointers and Polymorphism Analysis and its application to slicing
Large software systems are difficult to understand and maintain. Code analysis tools can provide programmers with different views… 
1994
1994
Automated program understanding by concept recognition
Program understanding can be seen as the process of understanding abstract concepts in the program code. Thus, automated… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
InfoSound: an audio aid to program comprehension
The authors have explored ways to enhance users' comprehension of complex applications using music and special sound effects to… 
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