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'''Program comprehension''' ("''program understanding,''", "''source code comprehension''") is a ___domain of computer science concerned with the ways [[software engineers]] maintain existing source code. The cognitive and other processes involved are identified and studied. The results are used to develop tools and training.

Software maintenance tasks have five categories: adaptive maintenance, [[corrective maintenance]], perfective maintenance, [[code reuse]], and code leverage.