Title :
Glyphs for software visualization
Author :
Chuah, Mei C. ; Eick, Stephen G.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Program Comprehension, 1997. IWPC '97. Proceedings., Fifth Iternational Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Dearborn, MI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7993-X
DOI :
10.1109/WPC.1997.601291
