Identification of dynamic comprehension processes during large scale maintenance

Guidelines for conducting and reporting case study research in software engineering

“…The definition of what data to collect should be based on a goal-oriented measurement technique, such as the Goal Question Metric method (GQM) (Basili and Weiss 1984;van Solingen and Berghout 1999). In GQM, goals are first formulated, and the questions are refined based on these goals, and after that metrics are derived based on the questions.…”

“…by Seaman (1999). There exist guidelines for experiments' conduct (Kitchenham et al 2002;Wohlin et al 2000) and reporting (Jedlitschka and Pfahl 2005), measurements (Basili and Weiss 1984;Fenton and Pfleeger 1996;van Solingen and Berghout 1999), and systematic reviews (Kitchenham 2007), while only little is written on case studies in software engineering (Höst and Runeson 2007;Kitchenham et al 1995;Wohlin et al 2003) and qualitative methods (Dittrich 2007;Seaman 1999;Sim et al 2001). Recently, a comprehensive view of empirical research issues for software engineering has been presented, edited by .…”

Program understanding behavior during debugging of large scale software

“…Observations are interpreted in terms of possible tool capabilities. von Mayrhauser and Vans (von Mayrhauser & Vans, 1994a, 1996b, 1996c investigated cognition processes to confirm through observations the processes stipulated in the model. von Vans, 1994a, 1996c) report on the comprehension process of one subject who had used a systematic understanding strategy where actions could be aggregated into episodes, episodes into aggregate processes, and those in turn into a session level process.…”

The Role of Cognitive Fit in the Relationship between Software Comprehension and Modification

“…Therefore, the domain model emphasizes the function information contained in the software. It is a high-level model that is more closely aligned to the application domain (that is, the problem rather than the software) and is less detailed than the other two models (Vans et al 1999;von Mayrhauser and Vans 1996).…”