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Program comprehension

Program comprehension (also program understanding or [source] code comprehension) is a domain of computer science concerned with the ways software engineers maintain existing source code. The cognitive and other processes involved are identified and studied. The results are used to develop tools and training.

Software maintenance tasks have five categories: adaptive maintenance, corrective maintenance, perfective maintenance, code reuse, and code leverage.

Theories of program comprehension

Titles of works on program comprehension include

Using a behavioral theory of program comprehension in software engineering
The concept assignment problem in program understanding, and
Program Comprehension During Software Maintenance and Evolution.

Computer scientists pioneering program comprehension include Ruven Brooks, Ted J. Biggerstaff, and Anneliese von Mayrhauser.

Ruven Brooks' theory http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=803210.
Ted J. Biggerstaff's concept assignment problem http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=257679.
Anneliese von Mayrhauser's theory http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/2.402076. --

References

Letovsky, Stanley. (1987-12-01). "Cognitive processes in program comprehension". Journal of Systems and Software.
Storey, Margaret-Anne. (2005-05-15). "13th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC'05)". IEEE Computer Society.

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