A multi-perspective software visualization environment

This paper describes a multi-perspective software visualization environment, SHriMP, which combines single view and multi-view techniques to support software exploration at both the architectural and source code levels. SHriMP provides three different views: a primary nested view and two subsidiary views. The primary nested view employs fisheye views of nested graphs, provides contextual cues, and supports general exploration activities. In SHriMP, subsidiary views exist as a searching tool and a relation tracer. These views complement each other and allow programmers to examine a software system from multiple perspectives. Keywords Software visualization, program understanding, multi-perspective, nested graphs, SHriMP views.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: CASCON
• Authors: Jingwei Wu, Margaret-Anne D. Storey
• Keywords: CASCON 2000, CASCON 2007, Nested Graphs, Primary Nested View, Subsidiary Views