Data-centered program understanding

@inproceedings{citeulike:1674627, abstract = {Software maintainers use a variety of techniques and representations for understanding programs. Most of these representations first focus on the control structure of a program such as call graphs, control flow graphs and paths. We propose a new approach for program understanding that is data-centered-it first focuses on data and data relationships. We have experimented on both small and large Cobol programs from industry to determine if our methods are useful for program understanding and software maintenance. We have developed DPUTE (Data-centered Program Understanding Tool Environment) that is currently being evaluated and enhanced by our industrial partners}, author = {Joiner, J. K. and Tsai, W. T. and Chen, X. P. and Subramanian, S. and Sun, J. and Gandamaneni, H. }, booktitle = {Software Maintenance, 1994. Proceedings., International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {1674627}, journal = {Software Maintenance, 1994. Proceedings., International Conference on}, keywords = {dataflow-analysis}, pages = {272--281}, posted-at = {2007-09-19 08:20:05}, priority = {2}, title = {Data-centered program understanding}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs\_all.jsp?arnumber=336767}, year = {1994} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1674627 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1674627 TI - Data-centered program understanding T2 - Software Maintenance, 1994. Proceedings., International Conference on JF - Software Maintenance, 1994. Proceedings., International Conference on SP - 272 EP - 281 N2 - Software maintainers use a variety of techniques and representations for understanding programs. Most of these representations first focus on the control structure of a program such as call graphs, control flow graphs and paths. We propose a new approach for program understanding that is data-centered-it first focuses on data and data relationships. We have experimented on both small and large Cobol programs from industry to determine if our methods are useful for program understanding and software maintenance. We have developed DPUTE (Data-centered Program Understanding Tool Environment) that is currently being evaluated and enhanced by our industrial partners KW - dataflow-analysis AU - Joiner, JK AU - Tsai, WT AU - Chen, XP AU - Subramanian, S AU - Sun, J AU - Gandamaneni, H PY - 1994/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=336767 ER -