Program understanding: challenge for the 1990's
IBM Systems Journal
Seesoft-A Tool for Visualizing Line Oriented Software Statistics
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software measurement principles, techniques, and environments
Software reconnaissance: mapping program features to code
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
The concept assignment problem in program understanding
ICSE '93 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Software Engineering
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Computer Evaluation of Indexing and Text Processing
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Supporting program comprehension using semantic and structural information
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Exploiting the map metaphor in a tool for software evolution
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Software Change Impact Analysis
Software Change Impact Analysis
Modern Information Retrieval
Concern graphs: finding and describing concerns using structural program dependencies
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
Recovering Traceability Links between Code and Documentation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Locating Features in Source Code
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Recovering documentation-to-source-code traceability links using latent semantic indexing
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Locating Program Features using Execution Slices
ASSET '99 Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Application - Specific Systems and Software Engineering and Technology
Aiding Program Comprehension by Static and Dynamic Feature Analysis
ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
Information Retrieval Models for Recovering Traceability Links between Code and Documentation
ICSM '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'00)
Case Study of Feature Location Using Dependence Graph
IWPC '00 Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
A comparison of methods for locating features in legacy software
Journal of Systems and Software
Refactoring for generalization using type constraints
OOPSLA '03 Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programing, systems, languages, and applications
Understanding How the Requirements Are Implemented in Source Code
APSEC '03 Proceedings of the Tenth Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference Software Engineering Conference
Discovering Use Cases from Source Code using the Branch-Reserving Call Graph
APSEC '03 Proceedings of the Tenth Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference Software Engineering Conference
The SMART Retrieval System—Experiments in Automatic Document Processing
The SMART Retrieval System—Experiments in Automatic Document Processing
Automatic generation of suggestions for program investigation
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Using language clues to discover crosscutting concerns
MACS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Modeling and analysis of concerns in software
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM international Conference on Automated software engineering
ConcernMapper: simple view-based separation of scattered concerns
eclipse '05 Proceedings of the 2005 OOPSLA workshop on Eclipse technology eXchange
Towards supporting on-demand virtual remodularization using program graphs
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
SNIAFL: Towards a static noninteractive approach to feature location
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Representing concerns in source code
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Using natural language program analysis to locate and understand action-oriented concerns
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Suade: Topology-Based Searches for Software Investigation
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Inferring structural patterns for concern traceability in evolving software
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Automatically locating framework extension examples
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Empirical Software Engineering
Software Engineering
On the impact of trace-based feature location in the performance of software maintainers
Journal of Systems and Software
Topology analysis of software dependencies
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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To facilitate software maintenance and evolution, a helpfulstep is to locate features concerned in a particular maintenancetask. In the literature, both dynamic and interactive approacheshave been proposed for feature location. In this paper, wepresent a static and non-interactive method for achieving thisobjective. The main idea of our approach is to use theinformation retrieval (IR) technology to reveal the basicconnections between features and computational units in sourcecode. Due to the characteristics of the retrieved connections, weuse a static representation of the source code named BRCG tofurther recover both the relevant and the specific computationalunits for each feature. Furthermore, we recover therelationships among the relevant units for each feature. Apremise of our approach is that programmers should usemeaningful names as identifiers. We perform an experimentalstudy based on a GNU system to evaluate our approach. In theexperimental study, we present the detailed quantitativeexperimental data and give the qualitative analytical results.