{"title":"The role of concepts in program comprehension","authors":"V. Rajlich, N. Wilde","doi":"10.1109/WPC.2002.1021348","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an overview of the role of concepts in program comprehension. It discusses concept location, in which the implementation of a specific concept is located in the code. This process is very common and precedes a large proportion of code changes. The paper also discusses the process of learning about the domain from the code, which is a prerequisite of code reengineering. The paper notes the similarities and overlaps between program comprehension and human learning.","PeriodicalId":210649,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 10th International Workshop on Program Comprehension","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2002-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"281","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings 10th International Workshop on Program Comprehension","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPC.2002.1021348","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The paper presents an overview of the role of concepts in program comprehension. It discusses concept location, in which the implementation of a specific concept is located in the code. This process is very common and precedes a large proportion of code changes. The paper also discusses the process of learning about the domain from the code, which is a prerequisite of code reengineering. The paper notes the similarities and overlaps between program comprehension and human learning.