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Guzzi, A. (author), Hattori, L. (author), Lanza, M. (author), Pinzger, M. (author), Van Deursen, A. (author)The program comprehension research community has been developing useful tools and techniques to support developers in the time-consuming activity of understanding software artifacts. However, the majority of the tools do not bring collective benefit to the team: After gaining the necessary understanding of an artifact (e.g., using a technique...report 2011
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Van Deursen, A. (author), Mesbah, A. (author), Cornelissen, B. (author), Zaidman, A. (author), Pinzger, M. (author), Guzzi, A. (author)In practice, many people have to work together to develop and maintain a software system. However, the programmer’s key tool, the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), is a solo-tool, serving to help individual programmers understand and modify the system. Such an IDE does not leverage the knowledge other team members may have of the design...report 2010
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Guzzi, A. (author), Pinzger, M. (author), Van Deursen, A. (author)Software engineers spend a considerable amount of time on program comprehension. Although vendors of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and analysis tools address this challenge, current support for storing and sharing program comprehension knowledge is limited. As a consequence, developers have to go through the time-consuming...report 2010