Visualizing and Querying Software Structures

Mariano P. Consens, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Arthur G. Ryman

Abstract

Software engineering problems often involve large sets of objects and complex relationships among them.This report proposes that graphical visualization techniques can help engineers understanci and solve a class of these problems.To illustrate this, two problems are analyzed and recast using the graphical language GraphLog.The fwst problem is that of simplifying dependencies among components of a system, which translates into removing cycles from a graph.The second problem is that of designing an efficient code overlay structure, which is facilitat cd in several ways through graphical techniques.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Consens-al:ICSE92,
  author    = {Mariano P. Consens and
               Alberto O. Mendelzon and
               Arthur G. Ryman},
  title     = {Visualizing and Querying Software Structures},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {138--156},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {1992},
}

Visualizing and Querying Software Structures

Abstract

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