Program Visualization

Abstract

This paper reports on the design of a program visualization (PV) environment, intended to provide lifecycle support for software development. The PV environment will capitalize on recent progress in the graphical represnetation of information and low-cost color graphics, to provide designers and programmers with both static and dynamic (animated) views of systems. The aim is to support maintainers of large complex sofware systems. The PV system will, in effect 'open the side of the machine' to permit users to look inside and watch their programs run. In this paper, we survey categories of program illustrations and then present and motivate the design philosophy that we are pursuing for the PV environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 22, 1983
Accession Number
ADA125291

Entities

People

  • Christopher F. Herot
  • D. Kramlich
  • Gretchen P. Brown
  • Richard T. Carling

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Databases
  • Debugging
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Robotics
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Visualizations
  • Word Processors

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Manufacturing Engineering.
  • Software Engineering.