2D and 3D visualization of AspectJ programs

Abstract

This work concerns the software visualization which represents a valuable help when developing and maintaining software systems. The contribution of graphical visualization is important because it presents a program (or other artefacts) under an abstract synthetic view that gives a quick idea about the content, the logic, the structure and the entities relationships. AspectJ is one implementation of aspect-oriented paradigm applied to the Java language. As a relatively new paradigm with powerful specific constructs, it deserves new techniques and new tools to visualize programs. In this paper, we present a specific approach to visualize AspectJ programs in 2 and 3 dimensions, and a corresponding tool in the form of plug-ins for the Eclipse platform.

Visualisation environment for global software development management

“…With regard to the threat to validity of data Visualisation, we principally used the city metaphor as it has been successfully used in other tools such as Citilizer, which have been validated in [17][18][19][20][21]. What is more, to tackle the special needs of GSD, we also added representations in the forms of spheres and factories.…”

“…It is worth highlighting the Code_swarm system [31], an organic visualisation technique which seeks to display information about the development of a project, Metaballs [32] which aims to ease program comprehension by using 3D enhancing balls, and CodeTrees [33]. Lastly, we should mention the improvements in visualisation that are based on cities, such as those proposed by [17][18][19][20][21].…”