Rigi: A Visualization Environment for Reverse Engineering

The Rigi reverse engineering system provides two contrasting approaches for presenting software structures in its graph editor. The rst displays the structures through multiple, individual windows. The second newer approach, Simple Hierarchical MultiPerspective SHriMP views, employs sheye views of nested graphs. We compare and contrast these two interfaces for visualizing software graphs, and provide results from user experiments. Keywords Fisheye views, graph editor, nested graphs, reverse engineering, software visualization.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ICSE
• Authors: Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Kenny Wong, Hausi A. Müller
• Keywords: Graph Editor, ICSE 1997, Nested Graphs, Reverse Engineering, Software Engineering