Proceedings of the 2nd India software engineering conference
Reverse-engineering of an industrial software using the unified process: an experiment
SEA '07 Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
Automatic generation of abstract views for legacy software comprehension
Proceedings of the 3rd India software engineering conference
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The paper presents an approach to extract and to analyze the semantic content (i.e., problem and solution domain semantics) of existing software systems to support program understanding and software various maintenance tasks, such as: recovery of traceability links between documentation and source code, identification of abstract data types in legacy code, and identification of high-level concept clones in software. The semantic information is derived from the comments, documentation, and identifier names associated with the source code using information retrieval methods. The paper advocates for the use of latent semantic indexing as the underlying support for the semantic driven analysis. The presented results are based on the authorýs doctoral dissertation [12].