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PROUST: Knowledge-Based Program Understanding

Johnson, W.L., Soloway, E.·1985·IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
DOI 10.1109/tse.1985.232210
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This paper describes a program called PROUST which does on-line analysis and understanding of Pascal written by novice programmers. PROUST takes as input a program and a nonalgorithmic description of the program requirements, and finds the most likely mapping between the requirements and the code. This mapping is in essence a reconstruction of the design and implementation steps that the programmer went through in writing the program. A knowledge base of programming plans and strategies, together with common bugs associated with them, is used in constructing this mapping. Bugs are discovered in the process of relating plans to the code; PROUST can therefore give deep explanations of program bugs by relating the buggy code to its underlying intentions.

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Authors
Johnson, W. L., & Soloway, E.
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Published
1985-03
Volume
SE-11
Issue
3
Pages
267-275
ISSN
0098-5589 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1109/tse.1985.232210
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Cited by
284
References
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65.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Johnson, W. L., & Soloway, E. (1985). PROUST: Knowledge-Based Program Understanding. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.1985.232210

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