Dependence Cluster Visualization

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Islam, S., Krinke, Jens and Binkley, David 2010. Dependence Cluster Visualization. in: Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Software visualization New York, NY, USA ACM. pp. 93-102

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Authors	Islam, S., Krinke, Jens and Binkley, David
Abstract	Large clusters of mutual dependence have long been regarded as a problem impeding comprehension, testing, maintenance, and reverse engineering. An effective visualization can aid an engineer in addressing the presence of large clusters. Such a visualization is presented. It allows a program’s dependence clusters to be considered from an abstract high level down thru a concrete source-level. At the highest level of abstraction, the visualization uses a heat-map (a color scheme) to efficiently overview the clusters found in an entire system. Other levels include three source code views that allow a user to “zoom” in on the clusters starting from the high-level system view, down through a file view, and then onto the actual source code where each cluster can be studied in detail. Also presented are two case studies, the first is the open-source calculator bc and the second is the industrial program copia, which performs signal processing. The studies consider qualitative evaluations of the visualization. From the results, it is seen that the visualization reveals high-level structure of programs and interactions between its components. The results also show that the visualization highlights potential candidates (functions/files) for re-factoring in bc and finds dependence pollution in copia.
Keywords	Dependence; program comprehension; program slicing; clustering; visualization; reverse engineering; re-engineering
Book title	Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Software visualization
Page range	93-102
Year	2010
Publisher	ACM
Print	2010
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Deposited	06 Mar 2017
Place of publication	New York, NY, USA
Event	5th international symposium on Software visualization
ISBN	978-1-4503-0028-5
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1145/1879211.1879227
Web address (URL)	http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1879211.1879227
Additional information	© 2010 ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Software visualization. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1879227
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