Dynamic visualisation of software state

  • Authors:
  • James Ashford;Neville Churcher;Warwick Irwin

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand;University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand;University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • ACSC '11 Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Australasian Computer Science Conference - Volume 113
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The size and complexity of software systems presents many challenges to developers. Software visualisation techniques can help make more manageable tasks across the development cycle. In this paper we focus on the dynamic visualisation of software state---an important element in supporting activities such as debugging. We propose Pseudo-Breakpoints as a means of collecting data and making it available to specialised visualisation components. We describe the implementation of this concept in Eclipse and present some example visualisations.