2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)最新文献

Multiscale visual comparison of execution traces 执行轨迹的多尺度可视化比较

2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) Pub Date : 2013-05-20 DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613833

Jonas Trümper, J. Döllner, A. Telea

引用次数: 33

On the understanding of programs with continuous code reviews 通过持续的代码审查来理解程序

2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) Pub Date : 2013-05-20 DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613847

Mario Bernhart, T. Grechenig

引用次数: 18

Gapped code clone detection with lightweight source code analysis 缺口代码克隆检测与轻量级源代码分析

2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) Pub Date : 2013-05-20 DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613837

Hiroaki Murakami, Keisuke Hotta, Yoshiki Higo, H. Igaki, S. Kusumoto

引用次数: 51

Agec: An execution-semantic clone detection tool Agec:执行语义克隆检测工具

2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) Pub Date : 2013-05-20 DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613854

Toshihiro Kamiya

引用次数: 24

Evaluating source code summarization techniques: Replication and expansion 评估源代码摘要技术:复制和扩展

2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) Pub Date : 2013-05-20 DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613829

Brian P. Eddy, Jeffrey A. Robinson, Nicholas A. Kraft, Jeffrey C. Carver

{"title":"Evaluating source code summarization techniques: Replication and expansion","authors":"Brian P. Eddy, Jeffrey A. Robinson, Nicholas A. Kraft, Jeffrey C. Carver","doi":"10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613829","url":null,"abstract":"During software evolution a developer must investigate source code to locate then understand the entities that must be modified to complete a change task. To help developers in this task, Haiduc et al. proposed text summarization based approaches to the automatic generation of class and method summaries, and via a study of four developers, they evaluated source code summaries generated using their techniques. In this paper we propose a new topic modeling based approach to source code summarization, and via a study of 14 developers, we evaluate source code summaries generated using the proposed technique. Our study partially replicates the original study by Haiduc et al. in that it uses the objects, the instruments, and a subset of the summaries from the original study, but it also expands the original study in that it includes more subjects and new summaries. The results of our study both support the findings of the original and provide new insights into the processes and criteria that developers use to evaluate source code summaries. Based on our results, we suggest future directions for research on source code summarization.","PeriodicalId":237170,"journal":{"name":"2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114528608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 121

An empirical study on the efficiency of graphical vs. textual representations in requirements comprehension 需求理解中图形表示与文本表示效率的实证研究

2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) Pub Date : 2013-05-20 DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613831

Zohreh Sharafi, A. Marchetto, A. Susi, G. Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

{"title":"An empirical study on the efficiency of graphical vs. textual representations in requirements comprehension","authors":"Zohreh Sharafi, A. Marchetto, A. Susi, G. Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc","doi":"10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613831","url":null,"abstract":"Graphical representations are used to visualise, specify, and document software artifacts in all stages of software development process. In contrast with text, graphical representations are presented in two-dimensional form, which seems easy to process. However, few empirical studies investigated the efficiency of graphical representations vs. textual ones in modelling and presenting software requirements. Therefore, in this paper, we report the results of an eye-tracking experiment involving 28 participants to study the impact of structured textual vs. graphical representations on subjects' efficiency while performing requirement comprehension tasks. We measure subjects' efficiency in terms of the percentage of correct answers (accuracy) and of the time and effort spend to perform the tasks. We observe no statistically-significant difference in term of accuracy. However, our subjects spent more time and effort while working with the graphical representation although this extra time and effort does not affect accuracy. Our findings challenge the general assumption that graphical representations are more efficient than the textual ones at least in the case of developers not familiar with the graphical representation. Indeed, our results emphasise that training can significantly improve the efficiency of our subjects working with graphical representations. Moreover, by comparing the visual paths of our subjects, we observe that the spatial structure of the graphical representation leads our subjects to follow two different strategies (top-down vs. bottomup) and subsequently this hierarchical structure helps developers to ease the difficulty of model comprehension tasks.","PeriodicalId":237170,"journal":{"name":"2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125287319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 50

Quality analysis of source code comments 源代码注释的质量分析

2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) Pub Date : 2013-05-20 DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613836

Daniela Steidl, B. Hummel, Elmar Jürgens

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引用次数: 169

On the accuracy of Architecture Compliance Checking support Accuracy of dependency analysis and violation reporting 体系结构符合性检查的准确性支持依赖性分析和违例报告的准确性

2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) Pub Date : 2013-05-20 DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613845

Leo Pruijt, C. Köppe, S. Brinkkemper

{"title":"On the accuracy of Architecture Compliance Checking support Accuracy of dependency analysis and violation reporting","authors":"Leo Pruijt, C. Köppe, S. Brinkkemper","doi":"10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613845","url":null,"abstract":"Architecture Compliance Checking (ACC) is useful to bridge the gap between architecture and implementation. ACC is an approach to verify conformance of implemented program code to high-level models of architectural design. Static ACC focuses on the modular software architecture and on the existence of rule violating dependencies between modules. Accurate tool support is essential for effective and efficient ACC. This paper presents a study on the accuracy of ACC tools regarding dependency analysis and violation reporting. Seven tools were tested and compared by means of a custom-made test application. In addition, the code of open source system Freemind was used to compare the tools on the number and precision of reported violation and dependency messages. On the average, 74 percent of 34 dependency types in our custom-made test software were reported, while 69 percent of 109 violating dependencies within a module of Freemind were reported. The test results show large differences between the tools, but all tools could improve the accuracy of the reported dependencies and violations.","PeriodicalId":237170,"journal":{"name":"2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121463828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 12

Multi-dimensional exploration of API usage API使用的多维探索

2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) Pub Date : 2013-05-20 DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613843

Coen De Roover, R. Lämmel, Ekaterina Pek

引用次数: 62

Building extensions for applications: Towards the understanding of extension possibilities 为应用程序构建扩展:了解扩展的可能性

2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) Pub Date : 2013-05-20 DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613846

Mohamed Aly, A. Charfi, M. Mezini

{"title":"Building extensions for applications: Towards the understanding of extension possibilities","authors":"Mohamed Aly, A. Charfi, M. Mezini","doi":"10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613846","url":null,"abstract":"Software extensions enable developers to introduce new features to a software system for supporting new requirements. In order for a developer to build an extension for a certain software system, the developer has to understand what extension possibilities exist, which software artifacts provide these possibilities, the constraints and dependencies between the extensible software artifacts, and how to correctly implement an extension. Building extensions for multilayered applications can be very challenging. For example, a simple user interface extension in a business application can require a developer to consider extensible artifacts from underlying user interfaces, business processes, databases, and code. In commercial applications, extension developers can depend on classical means like APIs, frameworks, documentation, tutorials, and example code provided by the software provider to understand the extension possibilities and how to successfully implement, run, and deploy an extension. For complex multilayered applications, relying on such classical means can be very hard and time-consuming for the extension developers. In IDEs, various program comprehension tools and approaches have helped developers in carrying out development tasks. However, most of the tools focus on the code level, lack the support for multilayered applications, and do not particularly focus on extensibility. In this paper we investigate the resources and methods that extension developers currently depend on for implementing extensions and we evaluate their effectiveness in a study of extension developers performing extension development tasks for a complex business application. Based on the results of our study, we identify the problems and challenges that face extension developers and we propose requirements that program comprehension tools should support to aid extension developers.","PeriodicalId":237170,"journal":{"name":"2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128457885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2