Del Myers
ABSTRACT
This research demonstration presents the tool, Dynamic Interactive Views for Reverse Engineering (Diver). Diver supports software understanding through a trace focused user interface. The trace focused user interface is a method of re-organizing the user interface of integrated development environments so that developers can focus their attention on artifacts related to the run-time behaviour of the software that they are investigating. The tool combines concepts from research in software visualization, dynamic analysis, software reconnaissance, and task focused user interfaces.
- C. Bennett, D. Myers, M. Storey, D. German, D. Ouellet, M. Salois, and P. Charland. A survey and evaluation of tool features for understanding reverse-engineered sequence diagrams. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, 20(4):291--315, 2008. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- B. Cornelissen, A. Zaidman, A. van Deursen, L. Moonen, and R. Koschke. A systematic survey of program comprehension through dynamic analysis. IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, 35(5):684--702, 2009. Google ScholarDigital Library
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- D. Myers, M.-A. Storey, and M. Salois. Utilizing debug information to compact loops in large execution traces. In Proc. of the 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Re-engineering, pages 41--50. IEEE, March 2010. Google ScholarDigital Library
- N. Wilde and M. Scully. Software reconnaissance: mapping program features to code. Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice, 7(1):49--62, 1995. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Using dynamic analysis to create trace-focused user interfaces for IDEs
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