16. ICPC 2008: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

René L. Krikhaar, Ralf Lämmel, Chris Verhoef (Eds.): The 16th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 10-13, 2008. IEEE Computer Society 2008 BibTeX

Keynotes

Suraj C. Kothari:
Scalable Program Comprehension for Analyzing Complex Defects. 3-4
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Terence Parr:
The Reuse of Grammars with Embedded Semantic Actions. 5-10
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Software Evolution

Maksym Petrenko, Václav Rajlich, Radu Vanciu:
Partial Domain Comprehension in Software Evolution and Maintenance. 13-22
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Scott D. Fleming, Eileen Kraemer, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt, Laura K. Dillon, Shaohua Xie:
Refining Existing Theories of Program Comprehension During Maintenance for Concurrent Software. 23-32
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Xinyi Dong, Michael W. Godfrey:
Identifying Architectural Change Patterns in Object-Oriented Systems. 33-42
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Dynamic Analysis

Andrew R. Dalton, Jason O. Hallstrom:
A Toolkit for Visualizing the Runtime Behavior of TinyOS Applications. 43-52
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Marc Eaddy, Alfred V. Aho, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc:
CERBERUS: Tracing Requirements to Source Code Using Information Retrieval, Dynamic Analysis, and Program Analysis. 53-62
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David Röthlisberger, Orla Greevy, Oscar Nierstrasz:
Exploiting Runtime Information in the IDE. 63-72
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Program Comprehension Studies

Jochen Quante:
Do Dynamic Object Process Graphs Support Program Understanding? - A Controlled Experiment. 73-82
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David Binkley, Dawn Lawrie, Steve Maex, Christopher Morrell:
Impact of Limited Memory Resources. 83-92
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Andrea De Lucia, Carmine Gravino, Rocco Oliveto, Genoveffa Tortora:
Data Model Comprehension: An Empirical Comparison of ER and UML Class Diagrams. 93-102
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Domain Terms

Ahron Abadi, Mordechai Nisenson, Yahalomit Simionovici:
A Traceability Technique for Specifications. 103-112
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Sonia Haiduc, Andrian Marcus:
On the Use of Domain Terms in Source Code. 113-122
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Giriprasad Sridhara, Emily Hill, Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker:
Identifying Word Relations in Software: A Comparative Study of Semantic Similarity Tools. 123-132
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Metrics

Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt:
Reading Beside the Lines: Indentation as a Proxy for Complexity Metric. 133-142
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Simon Denier, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc:
Mendel: A Model, Metrics, and Rules to Understand Class Hierarchies. 143-152
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Cloning, Slicing, and Parsing

Chanchal Kumar Roy, James R. Cordy:
Scenario-Based Comparison of Clone Detection Techniques. 153-162
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László Vidács, Judit Jász, Árpád Beszédes, Tibor Gyimóthy:
Combining Preprocessor Slicing with C/C++ Language Slicing. 163-171
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Chanchal Kumar Roy, James R. Cordy:
NICAD: Accurate Detection of Near-Miss Intentional Clones Using Flexible Pretty-Printing and Code Normalization. 172-181
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Analysis of Revision History

Abdulkareem Alali, Huzefa H. Kagdi, Jonathan I. Maletic:
What's a Typical Commit? A Characterization of Open Source Software Repositories. 182-191
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Adam Vanya, Lennart Holland, A. Steven Klusener, Piërre van de Laar, Hans van Vliet:
Assessing Software Archives with Evolutionary Clusters. 192-201
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Martin P. Robillard, Putra Manggala:
Reusing Program Investigation Knowledge for Code Understanding. 202-211
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Short Paper Session 1

Irina Diana Coman, Alberto Sillitti:
Automated Identification of Tasks in Development Sessions. 212-217
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William M. Mongan, Maxim Shevertalov, Spiros Mancoridis:
Re-Engineering a Reverse Engineering Portal to a Distributed SOA. 218-223
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David A. McMeekin, Brian R. von Konsky, Elizabeth Chang, David J. A. Cooper:
Checklist Inspections and Modifications: Applying Bloom's Taxonomy to Categorise Developer Comprehension. 224-229
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Muhammad Usman Bhatti, Stéphane Ducasse, Awais Rashid:
Aspect Mining in Procedural Object Oriented Code. 230-235
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Short Paper Session 2

Abhishek Rohatgi, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Juergen Rilling:
An Approach for Mapping Features to Code Based on Static and Dynamic Analysis. 236-241
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Daniel Ratiu, Jan Jürjens:
Evaluating the Reference and Representation of Domain Concepts in APIs. 242-247
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Martin Feilkas, Daniel Ratiu:
Ensuring Well-Behaved Usage of APIs through Syntactic Constraints. 248-253
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Martin Pinzger, Katja Grafenhain, Patrick Knab, Harald Gall:
A Tool for Visual Understanding of Source Code Dependencies. 254-259
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Tool Demonstrations

Ruben Filipe Cardoso da Fonseca, Daniela Carneiro da Cruz, Pedro Rangel Henriques, Maria João Varanda Pereira:
How to Interconnect Operational and Behavioral Views of Web Applications. 263-267
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Johannes Bohnet, Stefan Voigt, Jürgen Döllner:
Locating and Understanding Features of Complex Software Systems by Synchronizing Time-, Collaboration- and Code-Focused Views on Execution Traces. 268-271
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Tatsuya Sato, Buntarou Shizuki, Jiro Tanaka:
Support for Understanding GUI Programs by Visualizing Execution Traces Synchronized with Screen Transitions. 272-275
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Workshops

Juergen Rilling, René Witte, Dragan Gasevic, Jeff Z. Pan:
Semantic Technologies in System Maintenance (STSM 2008). 279-282
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Thomas Dean, Joost Visser:
Industrial Realities of Program Comprehension (IRPC 2008). 283-284
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Mathieu Verbaere, Michael W. Godfrey, Tudor Gîrba:
Query Technologies and Applications for Program Comprehension (QTAPC 2008). 285-288
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