Automated support for legacy code understanding
Communications of the ACM
Program understanding and the concept assignment problem
Communications of the ACM
Coordination in software development
Communications of the ACM
Graphical User Interface Design and Evaluation: A Practical Process
Graphical User Interface Design and Evaluation: A Practical Process
Reverse Engineering and Software Maintenance: A Practical Approach
Reverse Engineering and Software Maintenance: A Practical Approach
Software Maintenance Management
Software Maintenance Management
The Book Paradigm for Improved Maintenance
IEEE Software
The MultiMedia Maintenance Management (M4) System
ICCS '01 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science-Part II
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The Multimedia Maintenance Interface (MuMMI) project concerns research into the use of multimedia and associated communications technology for the program comprehension process. Program comprehension is a time consuming process and conventionally has centered on scrutiny of the source code and any associated formal textual documentation. Recent studies however have shown that a mix of information types and in particular those at a more abstract level than source code alone can significantly assist the program comprehension process. A prototype MuMMI system has been developed that enables software developers to capitalize on the different information types and to document an application in multimedia format. This has the result that when the system enters the further development or maintenance stage, understanding of its working is facilitated through the rich multimedia attributes of video, audio, graphics and animation. This paper describes the aims of the MuMMI project, the requirements for and architecture of the resultant MuMMI prototype and a framework for its envisaged use.