gnisrap

noun

1. (uncountable)The cognitive process of creating a mental model of a computer program by reading the code.

   “A similar account is offered by the ‘parsing/gnisrap’ theory of computer programming Green et al. (1987). Programming, they argue, involves two processes: parsing, the generation of external code structures from internal cognitive structures, and gnisrap (the reverse of parsing), which involves the recreation of internal structures from code during code comprehension.”