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Overview of Program Comprehension

Wang Kechao, Tiantian Wang, Xiaohong Su, Peijun Ma

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Abstract

With the increasing of software requirements, software is becoming larger and larger. It becomes an important problem to maintain the software. Thus understanding the program exactly, rapidly and comprehensively plays an important role. This paper has presented the related research of program comprehension, summarized six typical program comprehension strategies and compared these strategies.

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With the increasing of software requirements, software is becoming larger and larger. It becomes an important problem to maintain the software. Thus understanding the program exactly, rapidly and comprehensively plays an important role. This paper has presented the related research of program comprehension, summarized six typical program comprehension strategies and compared these strategies.

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With the increasing of software requirements, software is becoming larger and larger. It becomes an important problem to maintain the software. Thus understanding the program exactly, rapidly and comprehensively plays an important role. This paper has presented the related research of program comprehension, summarized six typical program comprehension strategies and compared these strategies.

Key concepts: Program comprehension, Comprehension, Computer science, Software engineering, Software, Software maintenance, Software development, Programming language

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