Program Comprehension

Agenda

Introduction
- What’s the big problem? Why’s it interesting? What’s your big idea? Specifically, what will your project do about it?
Background: xxx
- What information does the reader need to know in order to understand what follows?
Tool: xxx
- What is the tool design like? What key design decisions? What was the rationale for those decisions?
Evaluation Method
- What is your study design like? What data will you collect? How will you analyze it? What key threats to validity do you anticipate, and how have you addressed them?
Related Work (may go before tool; may be combined into Background & Related Work)
- What competing (or maybe appear to be competing) approaches are there to your tool? How is your tool similar/different? Why might your tool be better?
Conclusion
- What have you proposed (recap)? What do you anticipate the benefits/contributions/impacts could be from the work?

Introduction
- What’s the big problem (gap in knowledge)? Why’s it interesting? What’s your study idea? Specifically, what will your project do about it?
Background
- What information does the reader need to know in order to understand what follows?
Study Method
- What is your study design like? What data will you collect? How will you analyze it? What key threats to validity do you anticipate, and how have you addressed them?
Related Work
- What competing (or maybe appear to be competing) studies are there to your study? How is your study similar/different? Why might your study reveal something new?
Conclusion
- What have you proposed (recap)? What do you anticipate the benefits/contributions/impacts could be from the work?