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Live Trace Visualization for System and Program Comprehension in Large Software Landscapes

By Florian Fittkau

Live Trace Visualization for System and Program Comprehension in Large Software Landscapes Computer Science

Live Trace Visualization for System and Program Comprehension in Large Software Landscapes

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In many enterprises, the number of deployed applications is constantly increasing. Those applications - often several hundreds - form large software landscapes. The comprehension of such landscapes is frequently impeded due to, for instance, architectural erosion, personnel turnover, or changing requirements. Furthermore, events such as performance anomalies can often only be understood in correlation with the states of the applications. Therefore, an efficient and effective way to comprehend such software landscapes in combination with the details of each application is required.
In this thesis, we introduce a live trace visualization approach to support system and program comprehension in large software landscapes. It features two perspectives: a landscape-level perspective using UML elements and an application-level perspective following the 3D software city metaphor. Our main contributions are 1) an approach named ExplorViz for enabling live trace visualization of large software landscapes, 2) a monitoring and analysis approach capable of logging and processing the huge amount of conducted method calls in large software landscapes, and 3) display and interaction concepts for the software city metaphor beyond classical 2D displays and 2D pointing devices.
Extensive lab experiments show that our monitoring and analysis approach elastically scales to large software landscapes while imposing only a low overhead on the productive systems. Furthermore, several controlled experiments demonstrate an increased efficiency and effectiveness for solving comprehension tasks when using our visualization. ExplorViz is available as open-source software on www.explorviz.net. Additionally, we provide extensive experimental packages of our evaluations to facilitate the verifiability and reproducibility of our results.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
360
Release Date:
2015-12-03
Publication Date:
2015-12-03
Publisher:
BoD - Books on Demand
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3739207167
ISBN13:
9783739207162
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
572 g
Height:
155 cm
Width:
220 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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