Traditionally, numerical algorithms are seen as isolated pieces of code confined to an in
silico existence. However, this perspective is inappropriate for many modern computational …

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product companies have brought in significant changes in
how we build software from architecture and engineering process perspective. SaaS …

Modern software products are complex systems and are better comprehended when
engineers can think of the software as a system. Systems Science suggests that learning …

When novice engineers (fresh or recent graduates with little industry experience) join a
SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) product company, they are tasked with comprehending the …

Modeling software systems as transition systems can improve system comprehension for
novice engineers and graduating students. However, this requires them to learn the …

Many students in their first year in the University have some idea of programming based on
courses in high school and grade school. Such knowledge, however, is highly unsystematic …

One of the key challenges for a novice engineer in a product company is to comprehend the
product sufficiently and quickly. It can take anywhere from six months to several years for …

SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) application software products have become ubiquitous over
the last decade. These are complex software systems from a design, creation and …

The fixed control structure of deterministic algorithms renders their behavior traceable but
not amenable to interactive exploration. In the accompanying poster, we illustrate how the …

As software systems become increasingly complex, it is important that students develop
software-is-system mindset. Our research aims to help engineers comprehend architecture …