LISTEN: A tool to investigate the use of sound for the analysis of program behavior

Author

Boardman, David B. ; Greene, Geoffrey ; Khandelwal, Vivek ; Mathur, Aditya P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

9-11 Aug 1995

Firstpage

184

Lastpage

189

Abstract

We describe the architecture and use of a tool named LISTEN. This is a general purpose tool to instrument computer programs so that during program execution aspects of program behavior are mapped to audible sound. Ongoing research aimed at investigating the usefulness of sound in various programming-related tasks and a lack of supporting tools led to the development of LISTEN. This tool is expected to find use in tasks such as program testing and debugging, software-development environments for the visually handicapped, and data analysis using aural cues. We also report our initial experience gathered during exploratory use of LISTEN and provide a summary of ongoing research using this tool

Keywords

data analysis; program debugging; program testing; reverse engineering; software tools; user interfaces; LISTEN; audible sound; aural cues; data analysis; general purpose tool; program behavior; program debugging; program execution aspects; program testing; programming; software tool; software-development environments; sound; visually handicapped; Animation; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Data analysis; Data flow computing; Data visualization; Databases; Displays; Software engineering; Software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1995. COMPSAC 95. Proceedings., Nineteenth Annual International

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7119-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1995.524778

Filename

524778