Context: Empirical studies with human participants (eg, controlled experiments) are
established methods in Software Engineering (SE) research to understand developers' …

While many large-scale software systems intensively implement variability to reuse software
and speed up development, they often do not document it, hampering its comprehension …

Analyzing source code dependencies between components within a program is an essential
activity in software development. While various software visualization tools have been …

The maintenance phase is an activity carried out by software engineers that requires an
understanding how computer programs work. However, most legacy systems lack …

Monitoring code quality and dependencies is an important task to keep software
maintainable. While generally well researched, only little work on visually analyzing code …

计算机程序是由开发者使用编程语言编写, 被计算机识别并执行的一系列指令.
大型程序源代码通常逻辑复杂, 句法抽象, 造成较大的认知困难. 计算机程序可视化以直观形象的 …

Integrated development environments (IDE) play an important role in supporting developers
during program comprehension and completion. Many of these supportive features focus on …

In object-oriented programming, classes are the primary abstraction mechanism used by
and exposed to developers. Understanding classes is key for the development and …

Open-source programs have gained popularity due to their decentralized, quick
development cycles and accessibility to everyone. Program understanding is vital for open …

Programming interaction usually involves specifying causal relationships such as input
events triggering a state change or the propagation of values. Such code may reside in …