Visualizing the Behavior of Object-Oriented Systems (1993)
| Venue: | In Proceedings OOPSLA ’93 |
| Citations: | 81 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Pauw93visualizingthe,
author = {Wim De Pauw and Richard Helm and Doug Kimelman and John Vlissides},
title = {Visualizing the Behavior of Object-Oriented Systems},
booktitle = {In Proceedings OOPSLA ’93},
year = {1993},
pages = {326--337},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
Numerous classes, complex inheritance and containment hierarchies, and diverse patterns of dynamic interaction all contribute to difficulties in understanding, reusing, debugging, and tuning large object-oriented systems. To help overcome these difficulties, we introduce novel views of the behavior of object-oriented systems and an architecture for creating and animating these views. We describe platform-independent techniques for instrumenting object-oriented programs, a language-independent protocol for monitoring their execution, and a structure for decoupling the execution of a subject program from its visualization. Case studies involving tuning and debugging of real systems are presented to demonstrate the benefits of visualization. We believe that visualization will prove to be a valuable tool for object-oriented software development.
