Print Email Facebook Twitter Understanding Execution Traces Using Massive Sequence and Circular Bundle Views Title Understanding Execution Traces Using Massive Sequence and Circular Bundle Views Author Cornelissen, B. Holten, D. Zaidman, A. Moonen, L. Van Wijk, J.J. Van Deursen, A. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Software Technology Date 2007-06-26 Abstract The use of dynamic information to aid in software understanding is a common practice nowadays. One of the many approaches concerns the comprehension of execution traces. A major issue in this context is scalability: due to the vast amounts of information, it is a very difficult task to successfully find your way through such traces without getting lost. In this paper, we propose the use of a novel trace visualization method based on a massive sequence and circular bundle view, constructed with scalability in mind. By means of three usage scenarios that were conducted on three different software systems, we show how our approach, implemented in a tool called EXTRAVIS, is applicable to the areas of trace exploration, feature location, and feature comprehension. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2007, IEEE Computer Society, June 26-29, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5294a383-a472-4df7-b72b-e0cc0ed99565 Publisher Delft University of Technology, Software Engineering Research Group ISSN 1872-5392 Source Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2007-009 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type report Rights (c) 2007 The authors. Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Software Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology. Files PDF TUD-SERG-2007-009.pdf 2.93 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5294a383-a472-4df7-b72b-e0cc0ed99565/datastream/OBJ/view