Experiences in Teaching Software Evolution and Program Comprehension

A large amount of research is devoted to software evolution and program understanding, but these topics are often ne-glected in software engineering curricula. The CCSE initia-tive from IEEE/ACM proposes guidelines for the future. At the ICSM’02 conference, a panel was held to establish what should be taught in the future. This working session focuses on what is being taught and what will be taught in the near future. The goals include (1) to share experiences in teaching software evolution and program understanding, (2) to estab-lish the state of the practice and (3) to identify future direc-tions. 1