16. ICPC 2008: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Keynotes

• Suraj C. Kothari:
  Scalable Program Comprehension for Analyzing Complex Defects. 3-4
  
• Terence Parr:
  The Reuse of Grammars with Embedded Semantic Actions. 5-10
  

Software Evolution

• Maksym Petrenko, Václav Rajlich, Radu Vanciu:
  Partial Domain Comprehension in Software Evolution and Maintenance. 13-22
  
• Scott D. Fleming, Eileen Kraemer, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt, Laura K. Dillon, Shaohua Xie:
  Refining Existing Theories of Program Comprehension During Maintenance for Concurrent Software. 23-32
  
• Xinyi Dong, Michael W. Godfrey:
  Identifying Architectural Change Patterns in Object-Oriented Systems. 33-42
  

Dynamic Analysis

• Andrew R. Dalton, Jason O. Hallstrom:
  A Toolkit for Visualizing the Runtime Behavior of TinyOS Applications. 43-52
  
• Marc Eaddy, Alfred V. Aho, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc:
  CERBERUS: Tracing Requirements to Source Code Using Information Retrieval, Dynamic Analysis, and Program Analysis. 53-62
  
• David Röthlisberger, Orla Greevy, Oscar Nierstrasz:
  Exploiting Runtime Information in the IDE. 63-72
  

Program Comprehension Studies

• Jochen Quante:
  Do Dynamic Object Process Graphs Support Program Understanding? - A Controlled Experiment. 73-82
  
• David Binkley, Dawn Lawrie, Steve Maex, Christopher Morrell:
  Impact of Limited Memory Resources. 83-92
  
• Andrea De Lucia, Carmine Gravino, Rocco Oliveto, Genoveffa Tortora:
  Data Model Comprehension: An Empirical Comparison of ER and UML Class Diagrams. 93-102
  

Domain Terms

• Ahron Abadi, Mordechai Nisenson, Yahalomit Simionovici:
  A Traceability Technique for Specifications. 103-112
  
• Sonia Haiduc, Andrian Marcus:
  On the Use of Domain Terms in Source Code. 113-122
  
• Giriprasad Sridhara, Emily Hill, Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker:
  Identifying Word Relations in Software: A Comparative Study of Semantic Similarity Tools. 123-132
  

Metrics

• Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt:
  Reading Beside the Lines: Indentation as a Proxy for Complexity Metric. 133-142
  
• Simon Denier, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc:
  Mendel: A Model, Metrics, and Rules to Understand Class Hierarchies. 143-152
  

Cloning, Slicing, and Parsing

• Chanchal Kumar Roy, James R. Cordy:
  Scenario-Based Comparison of Clone Detection Techniques. 153-162
  
• László Vidács, Judit Jász, Árpád Beszédes, Tibor Gyimóthy:
  Combining Preprocessor Slicing with C/C++ Language Slicing. 163-171
  
• Chanchal Kumar Roy, James R. Cordy:
  NICAD: Accurate Detection of Near-Miss Intentional Clones Using Flexible Pretty-Printing and Code Normalization. 172-181
  

Analysis of Revision History

• Abdulkareem Alali, Huzefa H. Kagdi, Jonathan I. Maletic:
  What's a Typical Commit? A Characterization of Open Source Software Repositories. 182-191
  
• Adam Vanya, Lennart Holland, A. Steven Klusener, Piërre van de Laar, Hans van Vliet:
  Assessing Software Archives with Evolutionary Clusters. 192-201
  
• Martin P. Robillard, Putra Manggala:
  Reusing Program Investigation Knowledge for Code Understanding. 202-211
  

Short Paper Session 1

• Irina Diana Coman, Alberto Sillitti:
  Automated Identification of Tasks in Development Sessions. 212-217
  
• William M. Mongan, Maxim Shevertalov, Spiros Mancoridis:
  Re-Engineering a Reverse Engineering Portal to a Distributed SOA. 218-223
  
• David A. McMeekin, Brian R. von Konsky, Elizabeth Chang, David J. A. Cooper:
  Checklist Inspections and Modifications: Applying Bloom's Taxonomy to Categorise Developer Comprehension. 224-229
  
• Muhammad Usman Bhatti, Stéphane Ducasse, Awais Rashid:
  Aspect Mining in Procedural Object Oriented Code. 230-235
  

Short Paper Session 2

• Abhishek Rohatgi, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Juergen Rilling:
  An Approach for Mapping Features to Code Based on Static and Dynamic Analysis. 236-241
  
• Daniel Ratiu, Jan Jürjens:
  Evaluating the Reference and Representation of Domain Concepts in APIs. 242-247
  
• Martin Feilkas, Daniel Ratiu:
  Ensuring Well-Behaved Usage of APIs through Syntactic Constraints. 248-253
  
• Martin Pinzger, Katja Grafenhain, Patrick Knab, Harald Gall:
  A Tool for Visual Understanding of Source Code Dependencies. 254-259
  

Tool Demonstrations

• Ruben Filipe Cardoso da Fonseca, Daniela Carneiro da Cruz, Pedro Rangel Henriques, Maria João Varanda Pereira:
  How to Interconnect Operational and Behavioral Views of Web Applications. 263-267
  
• Johannes Bohnet, Stefan Voigt, Jürgen Döllner:
  Locating and Understanding Features of Complex Software Systems by Synchronizing Time-, Collaboration- and Code-Focused Views on Execution Traces. 268-271
  
• Tatsuya Sato, Buntarou Shizuki, Jiro Tanaka:
  Support for Understanding GUI Programs by Visualizing Execution Traces Synchronized with Screen Transitions. 272-275
  

Workshops

• Juergen Rilling, René Witte, Dragan Gasevic, Jeff Z. Pan:
  Semantic Technologies in System Maintenance (STSM 2008). 279-282
  
• Thomas R. Dean, Joost Visser:
  Industrial Realities of Program Comprehension (IRPC 2008). 283-284
  
• Mathieu Verbaere, Michael W. Godfrey, Tudor Gîrba:
  Query Technologies and Applications for Program Comprehension (QTAPC 2008). 285-288