Dowsing: A Tool Framework for Domain-Oriented Browsing of Software Artifacts

  • Authors:
  • Richard Clayton;Spencer Rugaber;Linda Wills

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ASE '98 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Program understanding relates a computer program to the goals and requirements it is designed to accomplish. Application-domain analysis is a source of information that can aid program understanding by guiding the source- code analysis and providing structure to its results. We use the term "dowsing" to describe the process of exploring software and the related documentation from an application-domain point of view. We have designed a tool framework to support dowsing and have populated it with a variety of commercial and research tools.