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program comprehension

Description: A computer science activity and research area concerned with how people understand the structure and behavior of existing software code.
Wikidata ID: wiki/Q2652119
OpenAlex ID: keywords/program-comprehension
Learning and Teaching Programming: A Review and Discussion
2003 · Anthony Robins, Janet Rountree, et al. · Computer Science Education · 1,601
CodeT5: Identifier-aware Unified Pre-trained Encoder-Decoder Models for Code Understanding and Generation
2021 · Yue Wang, Weishi Wang, et al. · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 1,479
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
1985 · Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, et al. · 1,441
The Daikon system for dynamic detection of likely invariants
2007 · Michael D. Ernst, Jeff H. Perkins, et al. · Science of Computer Programming · 1,083
Programmers use slices when debugging
1982 · Mark Weiser · Communications of the ACM · 761
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Towards a theory of the comprehension of computer programs
1983 · Ruven Brooks · International Journal of Man-Machine Studies · 755
Evaluating large language models trained on code
2024 · Chen, Mark · TIB Data Manager · 737
Convolutional Neural Networks over Tree Structures for Programming Language Processing
2016 · Lili Mou, Ge Li, et al. · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 703
A Novel Neural Source Code Representation Based on Abstract Syntax Tree
2019 · Jian Zhang, Xu Wang, et al. · IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) · 700
An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect Relevant Information during Software Maintenance Tasks
2006 · Amy J. Ko, Brad A. Myers, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 684
Unified Pre-training for Program Understanding and Generation
2021 · Wasi Ahmad, Saikat Chakraborty, et al. · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · 639
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Software maintenance and evolution
2000 · Keith H. Bennett, Václav T. Rajlich · 606
Program comprehension during software maintenance and evolution
1995 · A. Von Mayrhauser, A.M. Vans · Computer · 576
A multi-national study of reading and tracing skills in novice programmers
2004 · Raymond Lister, Elizabeth S. Adams, et al. · ACM SIGCSE Bulletin · 547
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Dytan
2007 · James Clause, Wanchun Li, et al. · International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis · 539
CodeXGLUE: A Machine Learning Benchmark Dataset for Code Understanding and Generation
2021 · Lu, Shuai, Guo, Daya, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 536
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Stimulus structures and mental representations in expert comprehension of computer programs
1987 · Nancy Pennington · Cognitive Psychology · 524
Fast static analysis of C++ virtual function calls
1996 · David F. Bacon, Peter F. Sweeney · ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) · 517
Towards automatically generating summary comments for Java methods
2010 · Giriprasad Sridhara, Emily Hill, et al. · IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) · 513
Tango: a framework and system for algorithm animation
1990 · J.T. Stasko · Computer · 508
Semantic clustering: Identifying topics in source code
2007 · Adrian Kuhn, Stéphane Ducasse, et al. · Information and Software Technology · 497
Contracts: specifying behavioral compositions in object-oriented systems
1990 · Richard Helm, Ian M. Holland, et al. · 495
CodeT5+: Open Code Large Language Models for Code Understanding and Generation
2023 · Yue Wang, Hung Le, et al. · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 454
ArchJava
2002 · Jonathan Aldrich, Craig Chambers, et al. · Proceedings/Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering · 449
A Systematic Survey of Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis
2009 · B. Cornelissen, A. Zaidman, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 420
Works count: 9,714
Citation count: 126,400
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