Extraction and visualization of call dependencies for large C/C++ code bases: A comparative study

Author

Telea, Alexandru ; Hoogendorp, Hessel ; Ersoy, Ozan ; Reniers, Dennie

Author_Institution

Inst. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

fYear

2009

fDate

25-26 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

88

Abstract

Investigating program dependencies such as function calls is challenging for very large systems. We present here an integrated pipeline for extraction and visualization of call-and-hierarchy graphs for C/C++ programs. We present several adaptions and enhancements of a recent visualization method for large call graphs and compare its effectiveness with classical node-link diagrams. Examples are given on large real-world code bases such as bison, Mozilla and oink.

Keywords

C++ language; graph theory; program visualisation; C/C++ code bases; call dependencies extraction; call dependencies visualization; call-and-hierarchy graphs; function calls; integrated pipeline; node-link diagrams; program dependencies; Data mining; Data visualization; Large-scale systems; Mathematics; Permission; Pipelines; Robustness; Software systems; Software testing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis, 2009. VISSOFT 2009. 5th IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Edmonton, AB

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5027-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5026-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISSOF.2009.5336419

Filename

5336419