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Software Comprehension Tools

Software Comprehension Tools is a scholarly construct in the field of software reuse that denotes a category of computational artifacts designed to aid developers in understanding the structure, behavior, and semantics of reused software components by providing representations, analyses, or navigational support specific to comprehension tasks.

246

Publications

11.3K

Citations

550

Authors

202

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

29

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Publications

246

An open graph visualization system and its applications to software engineering

Emden R. Gansner, Stephen C. North · Software Practice and Experience · 2000 · 1.1K citations

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An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect Relevant Information during Software Maintenance Tasks

Andrew J. Ko, Brad A. Myers, Michael Coblenz et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2006 · 676 citations

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An open graph visualization system and its applications to software engineering

Emden R. Gansner, Stephen C. North · Software Practice and Experience · 2000 · 617 citations

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Using an LLM to Help With Code Understanding

Daye Nam, Andrew Macvean, Vincent J. Hellendoorn et al. · 2024 · 275 citations · Full text

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Using natural language program analysis to locate and understand action-oriented concerns

David Shepherd, Zachary P. Fry, Emily Hill et al. · 2007 · 208 citations

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Authors

550

  1. MS
    M.-A. Storey

    University of Victoria, Canada

    10 publications · 904 citations

    10

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  2. BA
    Brad A. Myers

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    8 publications · 1.4K citations

    8

    h-index

  3. ON
    Oscar Nierstrasz

    University of Bern, Switzerland

    7 publications · 360 citations

    7

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  4. LP
    Lori Pollock

    University of Delaware, United States

    4 publications · 399 citations

    4

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  5. NG
    Nicolas Gold

    University College London, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 78 citations

    4

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1–5 of 550

Institutions

202

  1. University of Victoria

    Victoria, Canada

    12 h-index

    27 publications

    2.1K citations

  2. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    12 h-index

    32 publications

    5K citations

  3. University of Bern

    Bern, Switzerland

    10 h-index

    23 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. Durham University

    Durham, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    13 publications

    177 citations

  5. Università della Svizzera italiana

    Lugano, Switzerland

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    399 citations

  6. University of Waterloo

    Waterloo, Canada

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    314 citations

  7. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    368 citations

  8. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    134 citations

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Venues

  1. Information and Software Technology

    4 publications · 141 citations

    4

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  2. Software Practice and Experience

    4 publications · 1.8K citations

    4

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  3. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

    TSE · 4 publications · 912 citations

    4

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  4. IEEE Software

    3 publications · 66 citations

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