A Knowledge-Based Approach to Program Understanding (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)

Program understanding plays an important role in nearly all software related tasks. It is vital to the development, maintenance and reuse activities. Program understanding is indispensable for improving the quality of software development. Several development activities such as code reviews, debugging and some testing approaches require programmers to read and understand programs. Maintenance activities cannot be performed without a deep and correct understanding of the component to be maintained. Program understanding is vital to the reuse of code components because they cannot be utilized without a clear understanding of what they do. If a candidate reusable component needs to be modified, an understanding how it is designed is also required. of This monograph presents a* knowledge-based approach to the automation of program understanding. This approach generates rigorous program documentation mechanically by combining and building on strengths of a practical program decomposition method, the axiomatic correctness notation, and the knowledge based analysis approaches. More specifically, this approach documents programs by generating first order predicate logic annotations of their loops. In this approach, loops are classified according to their complexity levels. Based on this taxonomy, variations on the basic analysis approach that best fit each of the different classes are described. In general, mechanical annotation of loops is performed by first decomposing them using data flow analysis. This decomposition encapsulates interdependent statements in events, which can be analyzed individually.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 325
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	1995
Authors:	Salwa K. Abd-El-Hafiz • Victor R. Basili
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	119
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
ISBN-13:	978-1-4613-5961-6
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Software engineering Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Programming languages > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General
LSN:	1-4613-5961-9
Barcode:	9781461359616

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