GraphTrace—understanding object-oriented systems using concurrently animated views
OOPSLA '88 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Interacting with the FIELD environment
Software—Practice & Experience - Unix tools
Seesoft-A Tool for Visualizing Line Oriented Software Statistics
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software measurement principles, techniques, and environments
Maintenance Support for Object-Oriented Programs
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software maintenance
Visualizing the behavior of object-oriented systems
OOPSLA '93 Proceedings of the eighth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Hy+: a Hygraph-based query and visualization system
SIGMOD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Object-oriented software metrics: a practical guide
Object-oriented software metrics: a practical guide
Interactive visualization of design patterns can help in framework understanding
Proceedings of the tenth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Object-oriented metrics: measures of complexity
Object-oriented metrics: measures of complexity
Reuse contracts: managing the evolution of reusable assets
Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
Visualizing interactions in program executions
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Information visualization: perception for design
Information visualization: perception for design
Reverse Engineering and Design Recovery: A Taxonomy
IEEE Software
A Hybrid Reverse Engineering Approach Combining Metrics and Program Visualization
WCRE '99 Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Manipulating and documenting software structures using SHriMP views
ICSM '95 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Rigi: a model for software system construction, integration, and evolution based on module interface specifications
Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
EVolve: an open extensible software visualization framework
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Software visualization
Polymetric Views-A Lightweight Visual Approach to Reverse Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
CodeCrawler - Polymetric Views in Action
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
The Class Blueprint: Visually Supporting the Understanding of Classes
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
OOPSLA '05 Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Visualization-based analysis of quality for large-scale software systems
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM international Conference on Automated software engineering
Generating a catalog of unanticipated schemas in class hierarchies using Formal Concept Analysis
Information and Software Technology
Improving system understanding via interactive, tailorable, source code analysis
FASE'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference, held as part of the joint European Conference on Theory and Practice of Software conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Unanticipated integration of development tools using the classification model
Computer Languages, Systems and Structures
MudPie: layers in the ball of mud
Computer Languages, Systems and Structures
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The reengineering and reverse engineering of software systems is gaining importance in software industry, because the accelerated turnover in software industry, because the accelerated turnover in software companies creates legacy systems in a shorter period of time. Especially understanding classes is a key activity in object-oriented programming, since classes represent the primary abstractions from which applications are built. The main problem of this task is to quickly grasp the purpose of a class and its inner structure. To help the reverse engineers in their first contact with a foreign system, we propose a categorization of classes based on the visualization of their internal structure. The contributions of this paper are a novel categorization of classes and a visualization of the which we call the class blueprint. We have validated the categorization on several case studies, two of which we present here.