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HIGHLIGHTS

Keynote Speakers

1. •Václav Rajlich, “Intensions are a Key to Program Comprehension”
   

2. •Thomas Ball, “A Brief History of Software -- from Bell Labs to Microsoft Research”
   

Research Papers

1. •20 full-length technical papers presented in 7 sessions
   

2. •14 short technical papers presented in 3 sessions
   

Working Sessions

1. •Eye-Trackers as an Instrument for Evaluating Program Comprehension Methods
   

2. •TDD: Too Dumb Developers? Implications of Test-Driven Development on Maintainability and Comprehension of Software
   

Posters

1. •13 poster presentations on emerging results in program comprehension
   

Tool Demonstrations

1. •7 tool demonstrations of research prototypes for program comprehension
   

PAPER SESSIONS

Impact Analysis and Changes

1. •Variable Granularity for Improving Precision of Impact Analysis
   Maksym Petrenko and Václav Rajlich,
   

1. •Automatically Identifying Changes that Impact Code-to-Design Traceability
   Maen Hammad, Michael Collard, and Jonathan Maletic
   

1. •Automatic Classification of Large Changes by Maintenance Categories
   Abram Hindle, Daniel German, Mike Godfrey, and Ric Holt
   

Static Analysis

1. •A Plethora of Paths
   Eric Larson
   

1. •Practical Static Analysis for Inference of Safety-Related Program Properties
   Yin Liu and Ana Milanova
   

1. •Impact Analysis and Visualization Toolkit for Static Crosscutting in AspectJ
   Dehua Zhang, Ekwa Duala-Ekoko, and Laurie Hendren
   

Cognitive and Other Issues

1. •BugFix: A Learning-Based Tool to Assist Developers in Fixing Bugs
   Dennis Jeffrey, Min Feng, Neelam Gupta, and Rajiv Gupta
   

1. •Resumption Strategies for Interrupted Programming Tasks
   Chris Parnin and Spencer Rugaber
   

1. •Using Activity Traces to Characterize Programming Behavior Beyond the Lab (Short Paper)
   Gail C. Murphy, Petcharat Viriyakattiyaporn, and David Shepherd
   

1. •An In-Vivo Study of the Cognitive Levels Employed by Maintenance Programmers During Software Maintenance (Short Paper)
   Tara Kelly and Jim Buckley
   

Visualization and Sonification

1. •Trace Visualization for Program Comprehension: a Controlled Experiment
   Bas Cornelissen, Andy Zaidman, Bart Van Rompaey, and Arie van Deursen
   

1. •Using Spoken Text to Aid Debugging: An Empirical Study
   Andreas Stefik and Ed Gellenbeck
   

1. •Sonification Design Guidelines to Enhance Program Comprehension
   Khaled Hussein, Eli Tilevich, SooBeen Kim, and Ivica Bukvic
   

Features and Concerns

1. •Instrumenting Time-Sensitive Software for Feature Location
   Dennis Edwards, Norman Wilde, Sharon Simmons, and Eric Golden
   

1. •Crosscutting Patterns and Design Stability: An Exploratory Analysis
   Eduardo Figueiredo, Bruno Silva, Claudio Sant’Anna, Alessandro Garcia, Jon Whittle, and Daltro Nunes
   

1. •On the Role of Nouns in IR-based Traceability Link Recovery
   Andrea De Lucia, Rocco Oliveto, Giovanni Capobianco, Annibale Panichella, and Sebastiano Panichella
   

Source Code Reading

1. •To CamelCase or Under_score
   Dave Binkley, Marcia Davis, Dawn Lawrie, and Christopher Morrell
   

1. •Reading the Documentation of Invoked API Functions in Program Comprehension
   Uri Dekel and James Herbsleb
   

1. •The Effectiveness of Source Code Obfuscation: an Experimental Assessment
   Mariano Ceccato, Massimiliano Di Penta, Jasvir Nagra, Paolo Falcarin, Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, and Paolo Tonella
   

Architecture and Design

1. •The Loss of Architectural Knowledge during System Evolution: An Industrial Case Study
   Martin Feilkas, Daniel Ratiu, and Elmar Jürgens
   

1. •Dn-based Architecture Assessment of Java Open Source Software Systems
   Alexander Serebrenik, Serguei Roubtsov, and Mark van den Brand
   

1. •Standing on the Shoulders of Giants -- A Data Fusion Approach to Design Pattern Detection
   Günter Kniesel and Alexander Binun
   

Short Papers 1

1. •An Exploratory Study on Assessing Feature Location Techniques
   Meghan Revelle and Denys Poshyvanyk
   

1. •Natural Language Parsing for Information Extraction from Source Code
   Jens Nilsson, Welf Lowe, Johan Hall, and Joakim Nivre
   

1. •An Empirical Exploration of Regularities in Open-Source Software Lexicons
   Derrin Pierret and Denys Poshyvanyk
   

1. •Vector Space Analysis of Software Clones
   Scott Grant and James Cordy
   

1. •Identifying and Refining Design Elements for Proactive Copy-and-Paste Support via a Related Work Survey, Prototyping, and Code Clone Case Studies
   Daqing Hou, Patricia Jablonski, and Ferosh Jacob
   

1. •Syntax Tree Fingerprinting for Source Code Similarity Detection
   Michel Chilowicz, Etienne Duris, and Gilles Roussel
   

Short Papers 2

1. •Methods for Selecting and Improving Software Clustering Algorithms
   Mark Shtern and Vassilios Tzerpos
   

1. •Supporting Task-Oriented Navigation in IDEs with Configurable HeatMaps
   David Rothlisberger, Oscar Nierstrasz, Stephane Ducasse, Damien Pollet, and Romain Robbes
   

1. •Concept Programs: Program Comprehension by Verification
   Reinhard Schauer and Rudolf K. Keller
   

1. •Profile-Based Type Reconstruction for Decompilation
   Katerina Dolgova, Alexander Chernov, and Alexander Fokin
   

1. •An Empirical Study on the Comprehension of Stereotyped UML Class Diagram Layouts
   Bonita Sharif and Jonathan Maletic
   

1. •Who Can Help Me with this Change Request?
   Huzefa Kagdi and Denys Poshyvanyk
   

Posters

1. •Design Pattern Directed Clustering for Understanding Open Source Code
   Zhixiong Han, Linzhang Wang, Liqian Yu, Xin Chen, Jianhua Zhao, and Xuandong Li
   

1. •A Bug You Like: A Framework for Automated Assignment of Bugs
   Olga Baysal, Michael Godfrey, and Robin Cohen
   

1. •Discovering Task-Based Concern Maps by Merging Concern Fragments
   Sukanya Ratanotayanon and Susan Sim
   

1. •Towards Pie Tree Visualization of Graphs and Large Software Architectures
   Mireille Samia and Michael Leuschel
   

1. •An Initial Study to Measure the Heartbeat of Program Comprehension Using Structure Traversal Graphs
   Susan Elliott Sim, Sukanya Ratanotayanon, and Leyna Cotran
   

1. •Enabling More Precise Dependency Analysis in Event-Based Systems
   Daniel Popescu, Joshua Garcia, and Nenad Medvidovic
   

1. •Observation of Open Source Programmers’ Information Seeking
   Khaironi Yatim Sharif and Jim Buckley
   

1. •Creating and Maintaing Tutorials with DEFT
   Andreas Bartho
   

1. •Improving Program Comprehension by Enhancing Program Constructs: An Analysis of the Umple Language
   Andrew Forward, Timothy C. Lethbridge, and Dusan Brestovansky
   

1. •Capturing Java Naming Conventions with First-Order Markov Models
   Erik Linstead, Lindsey Hughes, Cristina Lopes, and Pierre Bald
   

1. •Automatic Detection of Internal Queues and Stages in Message Processing Systems Using Dynamic Program Analysis
   Suman Karumuri and Steven Reiss
   

1. •Task Board: Tracking Pertinent Task Artifacts and Plans
   Chris Parnin, Carsten Gorg, and Spencer Rugaber
   

1. •Program Complexity Analysis with Granular Hierarchical Structures
   Benjapol Auprasert and Yachai Limpiyakorn
   

Tool Demonstrations

1. •OGAN: Visualizing Object Interaction Scenarios Based on Dynamic Interaction Context
   Satoshi Munakata, Takashi Ishio, and Katsuro Inoue
   

1. •CRISTA -- Code Reading Implemented with Stepwise Abstraction
   Daniel Porto, Manoel Mendonca, and Sandra Fabbri
   

1. •Kenyon-Web: Reconfigurable Web-based Feature Extractor
   Sunghun Kim, Shivkumar Shivaji, and E. James Whitehead Jr.
   

1. •Prototyping Synchronization Policies for Existing Programs
   Y. Huang, L. K. Dillon, and R. E. K. Stirewalt
   

1. •SourceMiner as an Experimental Platform to Characterize Software Comprehension Activities
   Glauco Carneiro, Rodrigo Magnavita, and Manoel Mendonca
   

1. •SODBeans
   Andreas Stefik, Andrew Haywood, Shahzada Mansoor, Brock Dunda, and Daniel Garcia
   

1. •Increasing Awareness of Function Usage Directives with eMoose
   Uri Dekel