Trace visualization for program comprehension: A controlled experiment

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 100-109

  Cornelissen, Bas ^a   Zaidman, Andy ^a   Van Deursen, Arie ^a   Van Rompaey, Bart ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; CONTROL GROUPS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EXECUTION TRACE ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; TIME SPENT; TRACE VISUALIZATION;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

TRACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349981659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2009.5090033     Document Type: Article

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