The visual code navigator: an interactive toolset for source code investigation

IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, 2005. INFOVIS 2005. Pub Date : 2005-10-23 DOI:10.1109/INFVIS.2005.1532125

G. Lommerse, Freek Nossin, L. Voinea, A. Telea

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We present the Visual Code Navigator, a set of three interrelated visual tools that we developed for exploring large source code software projects from three different perspectives, or views: the syntactic view shows the syntactic constructs in the source code. The symbol view shows the objects a file makes available after compilation, such as function signatures, variables, and namespaces. The evolution view looks at different versions in a project lifetime of a number of selected source files. The views share one code model, which combines hierarchical syntax based and line based information from multiple source files versions. We render this code model using a visual model that extends the pixel-filling, space partitioning properties of shaded cushion treemaps with novel techniques. We discuss how our views allow users to interactively answer complex questions on various code elements by simple mouse clicks. We validate the efficiency and effectiveness of our toolset by an informal user study on the source code of VTK, a large, industry-size C++ code base

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可视化代码导航器:用于源代码调查的交互式工具集

我们展示了Visual Code Navigator，这是一组由三个相互关联的可视化工具组成的工具，我们开发这些工具是为了从三个不同的角度或视图来探索大型源代码软件项目:语法视图显示了源代码中的语法结构。符号视图显示编译后文件可用的对象，如函数签名、变量和命名空间。演进视图查看项目生命周期中许多选定源文件的不同版本。视图共享一个代码模型，该模型结合了来自多个源文件版本的基于层次语法和基于行的信息。我们使用一个可视化模型来渲染这个代码模型，该模型扩展了阴影缓冲树图的像素填充和空间划分属性。我们将讨论视图如何允许用户通过简单的鼠标点击来交互式地回答关于各种代码元素的复杂问题。我们通过对VTK的源代码进行非正式的用户研究来验证我们的工具集的效率和有效性，VTK是一个大型的、行业规模的c++代码库

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