Hierarchical Abstraction of Execution Traces for Program Comprehension

• Published in: 2018 IEEE/ACM 26th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) pp. 86 - 96
• Main Authors: Feng, Yang, Dreef, Kaj, Jones, James, van Deursen, Arie
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: ACM 01.05.2018
• Subjects: Accuracy; Bridges; Codes; Documentation; Dynamic Analysis; Execution trace understanding; multi level abstraction; Program comprehension; Semantics; Software systems; Source coding

Understanding the dynamic behavior of a software system is one of the most important and time-consuming tasks for today's software maintainers. In practice, understanding the inner workings of software requires studying the source code and documentation and inserting logging code in order to ma...