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Subject: PEM: Arie van Deursen | Reverse Engineering and Program Comprehension in Extreme Programming | 26.04.01

 
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   Dear colleagues,

   This  week  we  have  an  XPEM. Arie will present his work on software
   analysis  applied to software developed using the XP style of software
   engineering.

   Be there, or be square!

   This announcement can be found at <http://www.cwi.nl/~pem>

    Reverse Engineering and Program Comprehension in Extreme Programming

   Date:    26.04.01
   Time:    10:00
   Venue:   F 0.13 (UvA)
   Speaker: Arie van Deursen
   Title:   Reverse Engineering and Program Comprehension in Extreme Programmin
g

   We  investigate  the  relationship  between  reverse  engineering  and
   program  comprehension  on  the  one hand, and software process on the
   other.  To  understand  this  relationship,  we  select one particular
   existing  software  process,  extreme  programming (XP), and study the
   role played by program comprehension and reverse engineering in it. To
   that end, we analyze five key XP practices in depth, for which we have
   selected  pair  programming,  unit  testing, refactoring, evolutionary
   design, and collaborative planning.

   The contributions to reverse and program comprehension research are:
    1. a  framework  for  assessing,  designing,  and  improving software
       process  from  the  comprehension and reverse engineering point of
       view
    2. the identification of new, process-related research questions
    3. a  critique of XP, which leads to research questions and proposals
       for experiments that could help resolve some  of the uncertainties
       surrounding the XP process.
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