Article in Proceedings INPROC-2001-83

BibliographyEisenbarth, Thomas; Koschke, Rainer; Simon, Daniel: Aiding Program Comprehension by Static and Dynamic Feature Analysis.
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, Florence, Italy.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 602-611, english.
IEEE Computer Society Press, November 2001.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaD.2.7 (Software Engineering Distribution, Maintenance, and Enhancement)
Abstract

Understanding a system's implementation without prior knowledge is a hard task for reengineers in general. However, some degree of automatic aid is possible. In this paper, we present a technique building a mapping between the system's externally visible behavior and the relevant parts of the source code. Our technique combines dynamic and static analyses to rapidly focus on the system's parts urgently required for a goal-directed process of program understanding.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Software Technology, Programming Languages and Compilers
Project(s)Bauhaus
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