%0 Conference Paper %1 Lia2001 %A Li, Yang %A Yang, Honji %D 2001 %I IEEE %K program_comprehension programming style to_review %P 98--107 %T Simplicity: a key engineering concept for program understanding %X One of the most significant problems for existing program comprehension methods is its scalability. We introduce a new technique to make the scalability possible. In particular, we advocate the concept of ?simplicity? for program understanding. We first propose a simplified semantic network as domain knowledge representation; we then introduce a linear and domain-oriented program partitioning method which can partition a huge program into self-contained program modules so that the recovery of domain knowledge can be carried out within smaller program space. We also introduce a set of rules for recovering domain knowledge from C code followed by a theoretical analysis on these algorithms. A case study on programming style based program partitioning method is given. Finally, comparisons with other work are made and a conclusion is drawn

@inproceedings{Lia2001, abstract = {One of the most significant problems for existing program comprehension methods is its scalability. We introduce a new technique to make the scalability possible. In particular, we advocate the concept of ?simplicity? for program understanding. We first propose a simplified semantic network as domain knowledge representation; we then introduce a linear and domain-oriented program partitioning method which can partition a huge program into self-contained program modules so that the recovery of domain knowledge can be carried out within smaller program space. We also introduce a set of rules for recovering domain knowledge from C code followed by a theoretical analysis on these algorithms. A case study on programming style based program partitioning method is given. Finally, comparisons with other work are made and a conclusion is drawn}, added-at = {2008-10-11T13:39:56.000+0200}, author = {Li, Yang and Yang, Honji}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2bca87634c1679dadbdda95c78641d3e6/sjbutler}, interhash = {a9a11ca92e03d849fb02aac132f8203b}, intrahash = {bca87634c1679dadbdda95c78641d3e6}, keywords = {program_comprehension programming style to_review}, pages = {98--107}, publisher = {IEEE}, timestamp = {2008-10-11T13:39:56.000+0200}, title = {Simplicity: a key engineering concept for program understanding}, year = 2001 }