Title :
Support for Understanding GUI Programs by Visualizing Execution Traces Synchronized with Screen Transitions
Author :
Sato, Tatsuya ; Shizuki, Buntarou ; Tanaka, Jiro
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba
Abstract :
To support understanding a specific GUI functionality in a program, we propose a visualization technique that presents the correspondence between the screens before and after the operation, as well as the traces of the source code executed by the operation. The presented traces include the executed lines and the method calls, which are fundamental information for understanding the functionality. They are represented as highlights that are superimposed on the entire source code.
Keywords :
data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; reverse engineering; GUI program understanding; execution traces; screen transitions; source code; visualization technique; Computer science; Graphical user interfaces; Java; Keyboards; Mice; Runtime; Scattering; Shape; User interfaces; Visualization; Dynamic Analysis; GUI Program; Program Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Program Comprehension, 2008. ICPC 2008. The 16th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3176-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICPC.2008.28