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  • Haddad, Mireille J. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2017)
    Maintenance is the most costly phase of the software life cycle. The maintenance cost of a program is estimated to be over 80% of its total life cycle costs (Erlikh, 2000). Since most of the maintenance time is devoted to understanding the program itself, program comprehension becomes essential. Often, a large fraction of the maintenance time is spent on reading code to understand what functionality of the program it implements. An insufficiently documented source code can be challenging for developers to understand and maintain. A clear and concise documentation can help developers ...