A systematic survey of program comprehension through dynamic analysis

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 684-702

  Cornelissen, Bas ^a   Zaidman, Andy ^a   Van Deursen, Arie ^a   Moonen, Leon ^b   Koschke, Rainer ^c  

^a Delft University of Technology ^*  (Netherlands)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic analysis; Program comprehension; Survey

Indexed keywords

LITERATURE SURVEY; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; RESEARCH; SURVEYS;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 73449109470     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2009.28     Document Type: Review

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