PROPHET : Tool Infrastructure To Support Program Comprehension Experiments

Program comprehension is an important human factor in software engineering. To evaluate and improve it, controlled experiments are usually necessary, which, however, require a lot of effort. To support researchers in planning and conducting program-comprehension experiments, we developed the extensible tool PROPHET. It can fulfill the most common requirements of program-comprehension experiments published in the last five years. Furthermore, PROPHET provides an extensible architecture, so that new requirements can be easily implemented. Keywords-program comprehension; experiments; tool support; prophet

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