Program Visualization: Graphics Support for Software Development

Author

Kramlich, David ; Brown, Gretchen P. ; Carling, Richard T. ; Herot, Christopher F.

Author_Institution

Computer Corporation of America, Cambridge, MA

fYear

1983

fDate

27-29 June 1983

Firstpage

143

Lastpage

149

Abstract

This paper reports on the design and implementation of a program visualization (PV) environment, intended to offer the user an integrated graphics programming support system. The PV environment will capitalize on recent progress in the graphical representation of information, to provide designers and programmers with both static and dynamic (animated) views of systems. PV is currently being implemented to support programming in C, although large portions of the system are independent of the software development language. In this paper we provide an overview of the PV environment, along with a detailed discussion of the technique used to instrument programs.

Keywords

computer animation; graphics; integrated environments; program instrumentation; programming workstations; software engineering; Animation; Computer displays; Computer graphics; Instruments; Monitoring; Production; Programming profession; Visualization; Workstations; Writing; computer animation; graphics; integrated environments; program instrumentation; programming workstations; software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design Automation, 1983. 20th Conference on

ISSN

0738-100X

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0026-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DAC.1983.1585640

Filename

1585640