Source code comprehension strategies and metrics to predict comprehension effort in software maintenance and evolution tasks - an empirical study with industry practitioners.
Kazuki NishizonoShuji MorisakiRodrigo VivancoKen-ichi MatsumotoPublished in: ICSM (2011)
Keyphrases
- software maintenance
- source code
- program comprehension
- software evolution
- source code metrics
- change impact analysis
- software systems
- open source
- maintenance effort
- open source projects
- reverse engineering
- software projects
- object oriented systems
- software engineers
- impact analysis
- program understanding
- software metrics
- maintenance activities
- real world
- open source software
- eye tracking
- software engineering
- software repositories
- databases
- software quality
- cognitive processes
- software developers
- multi agent
- text files
- case study