Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Intelligent search and acquisition of business knowledge from programs
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Program understanding and the concept assignment problem
Communications of the ACM
Precise executable interprocedural slices
ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems (LOPLAS)
Extracting Reusable Functions by Flow Graph-Based Program Slicing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The concept assignment problem in program understanding
ICSE '93 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Software Engineering
Supporting program comprehension using semantic and structural information
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Salvaging Based on Conditions
ICSM '94 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
ICSE '81 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Software engineering
Information Retrieval Models for Recovering Traceability Links between Code and Documentation
ICSM '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'00)
Code Extraction Algorithms which Unify Slicing and Concept Assignment
WCRE '02 Proceedings of the Ninth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'02)
Program slices: formal, psychological, and practical investigations of an automatic program abstraction method
A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Forward and Backward Static Slice Size and Context Sensitivity
ICSM '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Feed-forward and recurrent neural networks for source code informal information analysis
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Source Code Modularization Using Lattice of Concept Slices
CSMR '04 Proceedings of the Eighth Euromicro Working Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'04)
Software—Practice & Experience
Locating Dependence Clusters and Dependence Pollution
ICSM '05 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
An Empirical Study of Executable Concept Slice Size
WCRE '06 Proceedings of the 13th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
An empirical study of static program slice size
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
An empirical study of slice-based cohesion and coupling metrics
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Assessing the impact of global variables on program dependence and dependence clusters
Journal of Systems and Software
Empirical Software Engineering
Combining concern input with program analysis for bloat detection
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages & applications
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Programs express domain-level concepts in their source code. It might be expected that such concepts would have a degree of semantic cohesion. This cohesion ought to manifest itself in the dependence between statements all of which contribute to the computation of the same concept. This paper addresses a set of research questions that capture this informal observation. It presents the results of experiments on 10 programs that explore the relationship between domain-level concepts and dependence in source code. The results show that code associated with concepts has a greater degree of coherence, with tighter dependence. This finding has positive implications for the analysis of concepts as it provides an approach to decompose a program into smaller executable units, each of which captures the behaviour of the program with respect to a domain-level concept.