Q. What are delocalized plans in the context of program text?

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Q. What is the effect of excessive use of inheritance on the comprehension process of a program text?

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Q. What is the effect of using the as-needed strategy on the implementation of changes to the program text?

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Q. What is the systematic strategy for studying program text?

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Q. What is the as-needed strategy for studying program text?

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Q. What role do causal relations between program components play in the maintenance of a system?

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Q. What increases the probability of ripple effects when modifying a system?

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Q. What is the origin of the knowledge used by the programmer during the comprehension process?

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Q. What are the classes of tools used during the reverse engineering process to build an understanding of the software?

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Q. What do tools that ease perceptual processes do?

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Q. What do tools that gain insight into the static structure of the program do?

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Q. What do tools that inspect the version history of the system do?

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Q. What are the tools to gain insight into the dynamic behavior of programs?

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Q. What is the classification of tools that provide support for maintenance tasks?

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Q. What is the feasibility of completely automatic design recovery?

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Q. What is the role of a tool for design recovery in a dialog with the human user?

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Q. What is the effect of eliminating gotos and redundancy on maintenance performance according to a study by Gibson and Senn (1989)?

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Q. What is the merit of restructuring tools limited to?

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Q. What is the purpose of Lehman and Belady's study on software evolution?

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Q. What is the basis of decision making in software evolution?

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