Tag Archives: IDE

Software Visualization Highlights at ICPC and ICSE 2013

Posted on May 30, 2013 by

Last week, the software engineering community met in San Francisco for ICSE 2013 to discuss recent advances in the field. Co-located to this big event, ICPC 2013 provided a forum for discussing specific questions on program comprehension. In this post, I … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Code Couplings: Node-Link Diagrams

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

From an abstract point of view, software systems can be considered as a set of entities connected by dependencies or code couplings such as method calls. We might also consider that entities inherit or aggregate, that they are changed together, … Continue reading →

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Array Explorer: Visualizing Arrays in the Eclipse Java IDE

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Stacksplorer – Call Graph Navigation

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

Researchers in the Media Computing Group at Aachen University created Stacksplorer for navigating call graphs of software systems. They implemented the visualization technique in XCode as a plugin for ObjectiveC code. A paper on Stacksplorer: Call Graph Navigation Helps Increasing … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Call Graphs

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

Struggling to navigate and explore code control flow? Then perhaps use REACHER an Eclipse IDE plugin tool developed by Thomas La Toza to visualize call graphs. A paper entitled Visualizing Call Graphs by Thomas La Toza was presented at VLHCC … Continue reading →

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