Managing views in a program understanding tool

  • Authors:
  • Kenny Wong

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Victoria

  • Venue:
  • CASCON '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research: software engineering - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Program understanding tools typically offer built-in visual representations of the subject software, such as call graphs and class hierarchies, and textual representations, such as cross-reference listings and exactinterface reports. It is useful to bundle a number of these visual and textual frames, with some annotation, into a view for redocumentation purposes. For large, legacy software systems, however, the abundance of created views can be a major problem. This paper investigates a number of methods for improving the organization of these views for improved us-ability and scalability.