Incremental exploratory visualization of relationships in large codebases for program comprehension

Authors:
Vineet Sinha;Rob Miller;David Karger
Affiliations:
MIT, Cambridge, MA;MIT, Cambridge, MA;MIT, Cambridge, MA
Venue:
OOPSLA '05 Companion to the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Year:
2005

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Incremental exploratory visualization of relationships in large codebases for program comprehension

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Abstract

As software systems grow in size and use more third-party libraries and frameworks, the need for developers to understand unfamiliar large codebases is rapidly increasing. In this demonstration, we present a tool, Relo that supports users' understanding by allowing interactive exploration of code. As the developer explores relationships found in the code, Relo builds and automatically manages a visualization mirroring the developer's mental model, allowing them to group viewed artifacts or use the viewed items to ask the system for further exploration suggestions.