Glyphs for software visualization

Author

Chuah, Mei C. ; Eick, Stephen G.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

28-30 Mar 1997

Firstpage

183

Lastpage

191

Abstract

Producing large software systems is an extremely challenging engineering task. The main reason is the difficulty of managing the enormous amounts of code and the great numbers of people involved in the effort. We have developed three novel interactive glyphs specifically tuned for visualizing software data. Our glyphs enable users to track software errors, isolate problems and monitor development progress. To demonstrate our glyphs´ functionality, we apply them to visualizing statistics from a multi-million line software project

Keywords

computer aided software engineering; data visualisation; engineering graphics; interactive systems; large-scale systems; reverse engineering; statistics; development progress monitoring; information visualization; interactive glyphs; large-scale systems; problem isolation; software error tracking; software project statistics; software visualization; team productivity; Computer errors; Computer science; Data visualization; Databases; Engineering management; Large-scale systems; Production; Productivity; Programming profession; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Program Comprehension, 1997. IWPC '97. Proceedings., Fifth Iternational Workshop on

Conference_Location

Dearborn, MI

ISSN

1092-8138

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7993-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPC.1997.601291

Filename

601291