Software Understanding

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In order to maintain software after it initial development it is necessary to understand what the design behind the source code of a system is. Software understanding is the field of research that is concerned with tool support for creating insight into software systems.

Topics that play a role in this context are

Documentation generation
Refactoring
Architecture extraction
Reverse engineering

A selection of these topics will be discussed in the lecture.

-- EelcoVisser - 17 Oct 2002