Abstract:We propose a system for visualizing the structure of software in a single drawing. In contrast to previous work we consider both the dependencies between different entities of the software and the hierarchy imposed by the nesting of classes and packages. To achieve this, we generalize the concept of micro/macro layouts introduced by Brandes and Baur (Baur and Brandes, 2008) to graphs that have more than two hierarchy levels. All entities of the software (e.g., attributes, methods, classes, packages) are repres… Show more
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