Information Needs for Validating Evolving Software Systems: An Exploratory Study at Google

Al-Nayeem, Abdullah; Ostrowski, K; Pueblas, Sebastián; Restif, Christophe; Zhang, Sai

doi:10.1109/icst.2017.64

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“…There have been a number of early exploratory user studies [10,13,18], and recent follow-up works [2,11,12,19] that categorize program comprehension questions and engineers' information needs. We will perform a literature review of this field to identify questions of interest to engineers that can be applied to graphical models of program data, especially those supporting program comprehension and interaction detection.…”

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Interactive Graph Exploration for Comprehension of Static Analysis Results

Toledo

2021

2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion)

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Static analysis results can be overwhelming depending on their complexity and the total number of results. Interactive graph visualization can help engineers explore the connections between different code entities while visually supporting insights about the code's behaviour. In our doctoral research, we aim to investigate how a graphical model of a program and its analysis results can support the engineer's understanding. We expect that a graphical interface can ease the diagnose of faults and reduce the cognitive load required to comprehend reported control and data flows present in the codebase.

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