Dynamic analysis for locating product features in Ada code
Proceedings of the 2001 annual ACM SIGAda international conference on Ada
Design recovery of interactive graphical applications
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
A comparison of methods for locating features in legacy software
Journal of Systems and Software
Static and dynamic distance metrics for feature-based code analysis
Journal of Systems and Software
Industrial tools for the feature location problem: an exploratory study: Practice Articles
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
Understanding features in SOA: some experiences from distributed systems
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Systems development in SOA environments
An approach to feature location in distributed systems
Journal of Systems and Software
On the impact of trace-based feature location in the performance of software maintainers
Journal of Systems and Software
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Software Reconnaissance is a dynamic analysis technique to help programmers locate code that they need to understand, fix, or enhance in an unfamiliar system. The technique was originally motivated by comments by industrial maintainers about the need for better ways of locating software features in large systems. It was then prototyped in a university setting and an initial tool called RECON was developed. The paper describes four case studies applying Reconnaissance to three different industrial programs of moderate size. Reconnaissance seems to be effective in finding "places to start looking" for maintainers of unfamiliar code. It can also be used to recover a traceability relation between program features and program code that may help identify design patterns. The case studies are the initial phase of an ongoing technology transfer project of the Software Engineering Research Center, to make Software Reconnaissance into a usable industrial technique.