title: What is a concise way of saying "Tracking the flow of statement execution within this method"
body: <p>I'm sorry if I'm not asking this correctly.  It may be due to a lack of understanding.</p>
  <p>If I was explaining to someone how to understand of a piece of code that's been written by someone else..I would say something like:</p>
  <p>&quot;Ok so here we have this method getting called and it's taking one argument.  Let's find the method declaration itself and see what it's doing and what it's doing to our argument.&quot;</p>
  <p>Is there a concise way of describing looking at code backwards in a way?  Following the sequence of events?  Flow of execution?  Flow/order of operations?</p>
  <p>Thank you.</p>