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The specific research issues addressed involve identifying and developing program representations and transformations suitable for classes of hierarchical hypermedia, and providing supplemental interactions for improving the personalized experience.

Using this approach as a foundation, we present an experimental study that compared the comprehensibility of two alternative auditory program representations: one with lexical scoping cues that convey the nesting level of program statements, and another without such scoping cues.

There are several application scenarios where the test data have been obtained at a different program representation as where the test data are executed: when using model-based testing, when the software has evolved over time, or the test-data generation is done on higher program representations to achieve easy retargetability of the test-data generation.

In all such cases there is the question of whether the structural code coverage achieved at the original program representation is also fulfilled at the transformed program representation.

The techniques it adopts are those of programming by example, visual program representation and direct manipulation.

On the other side, a test-data generator operating on such a high-level program representation could be easily retargeted to different platforms.

The advantage of test-data generation at this high-level program representation is on the one side reduced complexity and availability of explicit knowledge of the program behavior that might get lost during code generation and compilation.

However, due to compiler optimizations, the code coverage achieved at machine code level might not be given even though the test case cover the high-level program representation well.

In this article we address the challenge of ensuring that the structural code coverage achieved at a higher program representation level is preserved during the code generations and code transformations down to machine code.

After a discussion of kinds of program transformation and choices in program representation, the basic elements of a strategy system are discussed and the choices in the design of a strategy language are considered.

Our conclusion is that the visual language of comics has a strong potential for increasing the expressiveness and flexibility of visual programming with analogical representations of domain objects, while maintaining a direct mapping between the program representation and the runtime representation.