Problem Domain Oriented Approach for Program Comprehension

Varanda Pereira, Maria João; Beron, Mario Marcelo; da Cruz, Daniela; Oliveira, Nuno; Henriques, Pedro Rangel

doi:10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2012.91

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Problem Domain Oriented Approach for Program Comprehension

Authors Maria João Varanda Pereira, Mario Marcelo Beron, Daniela da Cruz, Nuno Oliveira, Pedro Rangel Henriques

Part of: Volume: 1st Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2012)
Part of: Series: Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)
Part of: Conference: Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE)
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license
Publication Date: 2012-06-21

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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2012.91
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-35161

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Program Comprehension
Ontology-based SW development
Problem and Program domain mapping
Code Analysis. Software Visualization

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with an ontology driven approach for Program
Comprehension that starts picking up concepts from the problem domain ontology, analyzing source code and, after locating problem concepts in the code, goes up and links them to the programming language ontology.

Different location techniques are used to search for concepts embedded in comments, in the code (identifier names and execution traces), and in string-literals associated with I/O statements. The expected result is a mapping between problem domain concepts and code slices.  This mapping can be visualized using graph-based approaches like, for instance, navigation facilities through a System Dependency Graph.

The paper also describes a PCTool suite, Quixote, that implements the approach proposed.

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Maria João Varanda Pereira, Mario Marcelo Beron, Daniela da Cruz, Nuno Oliveira, and Pedro Rangel Henriques. Problem Domain Oriented Approach for Program Comprehension. In 1st Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 21, pp. 91-105, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2012.91

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Maria João Varanda Pereira

Mario Marcelo Beron

Daniela da Cruz

Nuno Oliveira

Pedro Rangel Henriques

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