An Architecture to Support Model Driven Software Visualization

14th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC'06) Pub Date : 2006-06-14 DOI:10.1109/ICPC.2006.11

R. I. Bull, M. Storey, J. Favre, Marin Litoiu

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Program comprehension tools are a valuable resource for navigating and understanding large software systems. Package explorers, fan-in/fan-out views, dependency graphs and coverage analysis are example contributions from the program comprehension community. While many of these research projects have lead to exciting enhancements in our field, many other projects have failed to be adopted because of poor interface design or lack of integration with existing tools. Designing, building, integrating and evaluating interfaces is a challenge to software engineering researchers. In this paper we borrow from the field of model driven engineering (MDE) to assist with the creation of highly customizable interfaces for software visualization. MDE moves the level of abstraction from implementation to design, and help improve the efficiency of building software visualizations. By moving away from implementation details, and providing researchers with the ability to customize their visualizations in an efficient manner, software engineers have more resources to design and evaluate their ideas

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支持模型驱动软件可视化的体系结构

程序理解工具是导航和理解大型软件系统的宝贵资源。包探索者、扇入/扇出视图、依赖关系图和覆盖率分析是来自程序理解社区的示例贡献。虽然这些研究项目中的许多都在我们的领域中带来了令人兴奋的增强，但由于糟糕的界面设计或缺乏与现有工具的集成，许多其他项目未能被采用。设计、构建、集成和评估接口是软件工程研究人员面临的挑战。在本文中，我们借鉴了模型驱动工程(MDE)领域来帮助创建高度可定制的软件可视化接口。MDE将抽象层次从实现转移到设计，并帮助提高构建软件可视化的效率。通过远离实现细节，并为研究人员提供以有效的方式定制可视化的能力，软件工程师有更多的资源来设计和评估他们的想法

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