Visualizing Dynamic Software System Information through High-level Models
Robert J. Walker, Gail C. Murphy, Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Darin Wright, Darin Swanson, and Jeremy Isaak

In Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 18--22 October 1998), ACM SIGPLAN, ACM Press, pp. 271--283, 1998. Published as ACM SIGPLAN Notices 33(10), October 1998.

Abstract

Dynamic information collected as a software system executes can help software engineers perform some tasks on a system more effectively. To interpret the sizable amount of data generated from a system's execution, engineers require tool support. We have developed an off-line, flexible approach for visualizing the operation of an object-oriented system at the architectural level. This approach complements and extends existing profiling and visualization approaches available to engineers attempting to utilize dynamic information. In this paper, we describe the technique and discuss preliminary qualitative studies into its usefulness and usability. These studies were undertaken in the context of performance tuning tasks.

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