Fission for Program Comprehension | Zendy

Jeremy Gibbons | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Open Access

Fission for Program Comprehension

Author(s) -

Jeremy Gibbons

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

lecture notes in computer science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Book series

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249

H-Index - 400

eISSN - 1611-3349

pISSN - 0302-9743

ISBN - 3-540-35631-2

DOI - 10.1007/11783596_12

Subject(s) - computer science , program transformation , program comprehension , clarity , transformation (genetics) , fission , computation , programming language , program analysis , comprehension , theoretical computer science , nuclear physics , software , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , software system , neutron , gene

Fusion is a program transformation that combines adjacent computations, flattening structure and improving efficiency at the cost of clarity. Fission is the same transformation, in reverse: creating structure, ex nihilo. We explore the use of fission for program comprehension, that is, for reconstructing the design of a program from its implementation. We illustrate through rational reconstructions of the designs for three different C programs that count the words in a text file

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research