Visualising software documents in a generic development environment

Author

Allison, W. ; Carrington, D. ; Jones, T. ; Stewart-Zerba, L. ; Welsh, J.

Author_Institution

Software Verification Res. Centre, Queensland Univ., St. Lucia, Qld., Australia

fYear

1997

fDate

29 Sep-2 Oct 1997

Firstpage

49

Lastpage

59

Abstract

This paper describes how software visualisation can be supported in a generic environment for manipulation of software documents, using off-the-shelf graph-drawing tools. The effectiveness of the visualisation facilities achieved in a prototype implementation using the UQ* environment is illustrated by means of a call-graph visualisation case-study

Keywords

computer aided software engineering; data visualisation; diagrams; graphs; reverse engineering; system documentation; visual programming; UQ* environment; call-graph visualisation; case study; generic development environment; graph-drawing tools; off-the-shelf tools; program understanding; prototype implementation; software document visualization; software visualisation; Computer architecture; Information analysis; Information technology; Joining processes; Programming; Prototypes; Software engineering; Software prototyping; Software tools; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 1997. Proceedings., Australian

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8081-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASWEC.1997.623754

Filename

623754