On the Role of Static Analysis during Software Maintenance

  • Authors:
  • Anneliese von Mayrhauser;Steve Lang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IWPC '99 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Since Weiser's study [10], static analysis tools, specifically data flow and slicing tools are considered useful for software maintenance. To investigate this further, we conducted an observational study with professional programmers performing a debugging and an enhancement task.