Starting with the aim of modernizing legacy systems, often written in old programming
languages, reverse engineering has extended its applicability to virtually every kind of …

One of the central topics in computing education research (CEdR) is the exploration of how
a person learns their first programming language, also described in terms such as …

ABSTRACT Ethics, artificial intelligence (AI), and design thinking are current buzz words.
The threat of bias-riddled machine learning algorithms is represented media-wide …

To maintain and understand large applications, it is important to know their architecture. The
first problem is that unlike classes and packages, architecture is not explicitly represented in …

Little is known about the specific kinds of questions programmers ask when evolving a code
base and how well existing tools support those questions. To better support the activity of …

Reverse engineering software systems has become a major concern in software industry
because of their sheer size and complexity. This problem needs to be tackled since the …

This paper presents work practice data of the daily activities of software engineers. Four
separate studies are presented; one looking longitudinally at an individual SE; two looking …

Though many tools are available to help programmers working on change tasks, and
several studies have been conducted to understand how programmers comprehend …

Software is usually complex and always intangible. In practice, the development and
maintenance processes are time-consuming activities mainly because software complexity …

Comprehending and modifying software is at the heart of many software engineering tasks,
and this explains the growing interest that software reverse engineering has gained in the …