Notes on Program Comprehension

Source:Theories, tools and research methods in program comprehension: past, present and future Margaret-Anne Storey, Univeristy of Victoria, 2008 [1]

• Agile developers: Agile development which incorporates techniques such as test driven

development and pair programming has an impact on how programs are comprehended within an organization. To date there have been few studies to investigate how these practices improve or possibly hinder how programmers comprehend programs.

• As the programming workforce and technology changes, learning theories (Exton, 2002) will

become more relevant to end-users doing programming-like tasks. Theories are currently being developed to describe the social and organizational aspects of program comprehension (Gutwin, 2004). The impact of open source processes and agile methods have yet to be fully understood.