And Now For Something Completely Different

Abstract

A pilot experiment was conducted at Dagstuhl using the 'Beyond program slicing' seminar attendees. Attendees were split into three groups: all were given the same program to understand and a list of program comprehension related questions to answer. Group one had only the source code, group two had the source code and the dynamic trace of the program, group three had the source and a control-flow graph of the program.