On the role of program understanding in re-engineering tasks
A. von Mayrhauser, A.M. Vaus · 1996 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference. Proceedings · 2002
This paper reports on a software understanding experiment during re-engineering of large-scale software. Participants were professional software maintenance engineers. The paper explains the general understanding process, the information needs of these software engineers during their tasks, and the tool capabilities that would help them to be more productive.