FrUiT: IDE support for framework understanding
eclipse '06 Proceedings of the 2006 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange
Using natural language program analysis to locate and understand action-oriented concerns
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
The SEXTANT Software Exploration Tool
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Science of Computer Programming
CodeQuest: scalable source code queries with datalog
ECOOP'06 Proceedings of the 20th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
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Current tools for software understanding mostly concentrate on one comprehension technique, e.g., visualization, or bottom-up navigation through software elements via hyperlinks. In this paper, we argue that to effectively assist developers in understanding todayýs software systems, a combination of several comprehension techniques is needed including seamless integration of top-down querying and bottom-up navigation strategies that work across different kinds of software artifacts; furthermore, application-domain and/or technology specific relationships between software elements should be taken into consideration; last but not least, a tight integration of such tools into development environments is crucial. We present SEXTANT, a software exploration tool tightly integrated into the Eclipse IDE that satisfies these requirements. In two case studies, we demonstrate how SEXTANTýs features are conducive in tracking down the source of erroneous behavior, respectively, in discovering ýbad smellsý in the software structure which should lead to code refactorings.