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Facilitating Scenario-Based Program Comprehension with Topic Models by Wang, Tianxia, Liu, Yan

“…Researchers and practitioners have been seeking automatic and semi-automatic approaches to support program comprehension…”
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Infusing Topic Modeling into Interactive Program Comprehension: An Empirical Study by Tianxia Wang, Yan Liu

“…Automatic and semi-automatic approaches supporting program comprehension are sought by researchers and practitioners to facilitate software engineering tasks, such as development, maintenance, extension and so on…”
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Towards Spatial Complexity Measures for Comprehension of Java Programs by Chhabra, J.K., Varan Gupta

“… In order to understand a program, we need to look at human factors involved in the comprehension process…”
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Identifying Classes in Legacy JavaScript Code by Silva, Leonardo Humberto, Valente, Marco Tulio, Bergel, Alexandre, Anquetil, Nicolas, Etien, Anne

“…) program comprehension; (2) migration to the new JavaScript syntax that supports classes…”
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A Human Study of Comprehension and Code Summarization by Stapleton, Sean, Gambhir, Yashmeet, LeClair, Alexander, Eberhart, Zachary, Weimer, Westley, Leach, Kevin, Huang, Yu

“…Software developers spend a great deal of time reading and understanding code that is poorly-documented, written by other developers, or developed using…”
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Visualizing trace of Java collection APIs by dynamic bytecode instrumentation by Muhammad, Tufail, Halim, Zahid, Khan, Majid Ali

“… However, the task of program comprehension and performance analysis necessitates the understanding of data structures used in a program…”
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The Effect Of Crowding On The Reading Of Program Code For Programmers With Dyslexia by McChesney, Ian, Bond, Raymond

“…Good program layout and consistent application of style facilitates code readability and comprehension…”
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A Look into Programmers' Heads by Peitek, Norman, Siegmund, Janet, Apel, Sven, Kastner, Christian, Parnin, Chris, Bethmann, Anja, Leich, Thomas, Saake, Gunter, Brechmann, Andre

“…Program comprehension is an important, but hard to measure cognitive process. This makes it difficult to provide suitable programming languages, tools, or coding conventions to support developers in their everyday work…”
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JSEA: A Program Comprehension Tool Adopting LDA-based Topic Modeling by Wang, Tianxia, Liu, Yan

“… (Java Software Engineers Assistant), an interactive program comprehension tool adopting LDA-based topic modeling, to support developers during performing software maintenance tasks…”
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Introduction to dynamic program analysis with DiSL by Marek, Lukáš, Zheng, Yudi, Ansaloni, Danilo, Bulej, Lubomír, Sarimbekov, Aibek, Binder, Walter, Tůma, Petr

“…Dynamic program analysis (DPA) tools assist in many software engineering and development tasks, such as profiling, program comprehension, and performance model construction and calibration…”
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Augmenting Java method comments generation with context information based on neural networks by Zhou, Yu, Yan, Xin, Yang, Wenhua, Chen, Taolue, Huang, Zhiqiu

“…•A large-scale experiment is conducted to demonstrate the superiority of ContextCC. Code comments are crucial to program comprehension…”
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Automatic Source Code Summarization of Context for Java Methods by McBurney, Paul W., McMillan, Collin

“… Source code summarization is a critical component of documentation generation, for example as Javadocs formed from short paragraphs attached to each method in a Java program…”
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JSDeodorant: Class-Awareness for JavaScript Programs by Eshkevari, Laleh, Mazinanian, Davood, Rostami, Shahriar, Tsantalis, Nikolaos

“… In this paper, we present JSDEODORANT, an Eclipse plug-in that enables classaware maintenance and comprehension for JavaScript programs. (https://youtu.be/k4U2LwkL6JU)…”
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JP2: Call-site aware calling context profiling for the Java Virtual Machine by Sarimbekov, Aibek, Sewe, Andreas, Binder, Walter, Moret, Philippe, Mezini, Mira

“… of a program’s inter- and intra-procedural control flow, which are important for workload characterization, debugging, profiling, program comprehension, and reverse engineering…”
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Moving Towards Program Comprehension in Software Development: A Case Study by Fellah, Abdelaziz, Bandi, Ajay, Yousef, Mahmoud

“… With no previous knowledge on program comprehension, participants were explicitly instructed to use their computing skills and own strategies to comprehend a set of Java programs of different difficulty levels…”
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A large scale empirical study of the impact of Spaghetti Code and Blob anti-patterns on program comprehension by Politowski, Cristiano, Khomh, Foutse, Romano, Simone, Scanniello, Giuseppe, Petrillo, Fabio, Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël, Maiga, Abdou

“… This source code must be easy to understand by developers. In this work, we provide a complete assessment of the impact of two instances of two anti-patterns, Blob or Spaghetti Code, on program comprehension…”
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Descriptive Compound Identifier Names Improve Source Code Comprehension by Schankin, Andrea, Berger, Annika, Holt, Daniel V., Hofmeister, Johannes C., Riedel, Till, Beigl, Michael

“…Reading and understanding source code is a major task in software development. Code comprehension depends on the quality of code, which is impacted by code structure and identifier naming…”
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Analyzing the structure of Java software systems by weighted K-core decomposition by Pan, Weifeng, Li, Bing, Liu, Jing, Ma, Yutao, Hu, Bo

“… In this paper, we construct a set of weighted software networks from real-world Java software systems and empirically investigate their topological properties by using weighted k-core decomposition…”
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An eye tracking study assessing source code readability rules for program comprehension by Park, Kang-il, Johnson, Jack, Peterson, Cole S., Yedla, Nishitha, Baysinger, Isaac, Aponte, Jairo, Sharif, Bonita

“…Context While developing software, developers must first read and understand source code in order to work on change requests such as bug fixes or feature…”
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How do annotations affect Java code readability? by Guerra, Eduardo, Gomes, Everaldo, Ferreira, Jeferson, Wiese, Igor, Lima, Phyllipe, Gerosa, Marco, Meirelles, Paulo

“… Method In a survey with software developers (n=332), we present 15 pairs of Java code snippets with and without code annotations…”
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