Researchers in software engineering have attempted to improve software development by
mining and analyzing software repositories. Since the majority of the software engineering …

To support program comprehension, software artifacts can be labeled—for example within
software visualization tools—with a set of representative words, hereby referred to as labels …

Understanding the dynamic behavior of a software system is one of the most important and
time-consuming tasks for today's software maintainers. In practice, understanding the inner …

For developers concerned with a performance drop or improvement in their software, a
profiler allows a developer to quickly search and identify bottlenecks and leaks that …

The understanding of the interactions among processes of a High Performance Computing
(HPC) system can be made easier if trace analysis is used. Traces, however, can be quite …

Understanding a program and the features it provides is essential for a number of software
engineering tasks, including refactoring, debugging, and debloating. Unfortunately, program …

Program comprehension is a necessary step during software understanding and
maintenance. It is usually performed by analyzing data gathered from program execution …

In the software development life cycle, we use the execution traces of a given application to
examine the behavior of the software when an error occurs or to monitor the software …

Trace analysis techniques are used by software engineers to understand the behaviour of
large systems. This understanding can facilitate various software maintenance activities …

Program understanding is necessary for most software engineering tasks. Both internal and
external documentation help during this process, since they might summarize valuable …