COOPE: a tool for representing concurrent object-oriented program execution through visualisation

Author

Leroux, Hugo ; Exton, Chris

Author_Institution

Sch. of Network Comput., Monash Univ., Frankston, Vic., Australia

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

76

Abstract

There has been a move to introduce concurrency and object-orientation in the undergraduate curriculum. However, both bring forth challenging new concepts to the students. Despite these challenges, the benefits gained from learning concurrent object-oriented programming are numerous. Visualisation holds great promise in expediting comprehension of such complex issues. The aim of this paper is to discuss the potential of our visualisation tool, COOPE, to assist the students in comprehending the complexities of concurrent object-oriented programs. We thus present some broad requirements of a visualisation tool and discuss the design and implementation of COOPE

Keywords

data visualisation; object-oriented programming; parallel programming; software tools; COOPE; concurrency; concurrent object-oriented program execution; concurrent object-oriented programming; concurrent object-oriented programs; object-orientation; undergraduate curriculum; visualisation; Australia; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Java; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Unified modeling language; Visualization; Weather forecasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2001. Proceedings. Ninth Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

Mantova

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0987-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.2001.905016

Filename

905016