Program Comprehension Risks and Opportunities in Extreme Programming
ArieVanDeursen ,
CWI, May 2001.
Proceedings
WCRE 2001,
IEEE Computer Society.
Abstract
We investigate the relationship between
ReverseEngineering and
ProgramUnderstanding on the one hand, and
SoftwareProcess on the other.
To understand this relationship, we select one particular
existing software process,
ExtremeProgramming (XP), and study the
role played in it by program comprehension and reverse engineering.
To that end, we analyze five key XP practices in depth:
pair programming, unit testing,
ProgramRefactoring,
evolutionary design, and collaborative planning.
The contributions of this paper are
(1) the identification of promising research areas in the field
of program comprehension;
(2) the identification of new application perspectives for
reverse engineering technology
(3) a critical analysis of XP resulting in research questions
that could help resolve some of the uncertainties surrounding XP;
(4) a process assessment framework for analyzing software processes
from the comprehension and reverse engineering point of view.
See
http://www.cwi.nl/~arie/papers/xpu.pdf
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ArieVanDeursen - 10 May 2001
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