A Structured Demonstration of Five Program Comprehension Tools: Lessons Learnt

Authors:
Susan Elliott Sim;Margaret-Anne Storey;Andreas Winter
Affiliations:
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Venue:
WCRE '00 Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'00)
Year:
2000

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Abstract

The purpose of this panel is to report on a structured demonstration for comparing program comprehension tools. Five teams of program comprehension tool designers applied their tools to a set of maintenance tasks on a common subject system. By applying a variety of reverse engineering techniques to a predefined set of tasks, the tools can be compared using a common playing field. A secondary topic of discussion will address the development of 驴guinea pig驴 systems and how to use them in a structured demonstration for evaluating software tools.