Cognitive design elements to support the construction of a mental model during software exploration

Storey, Margaret-Anne; Fracchia, F. David; Müller, Hausi A.

doi:10.1016/s0164-1212(98)10055-9

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“…Additionally, such interactivity might be an ideal candidate to improve the scalability of the visualization and to deal with complexity issues. Interactions can be added to the visualization (e.g.,pop-ups) to convey additional information to the user, or to limit the scope of the visualization to a particular subset of the software system that is visualized [25].…”

Section: Visualization Pitfallsmentioning

confidence: 99%

AspectMaps: A Scalable Visualization of Join Point Shadows

Fabry

Kellens

Ducasse

2011

2011 IEEE 19th International Conference on Program Comprehension

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When using Aspect-Oriented Programming, it is sometimes difficult to determine at which join point an aspect will execute. Similarly, when considering one join point, knowing which aspects will execute there and in what order is nontrivial. This makes it difficult to understand how the application will behave. A number of visualization tools have been proposed that attempt to provide support for such program understanding. However, they neither scale up to large code bases nor scale down to understanding what happens at a single join point. In this paper, we present AspectMaps -a visualization that does scale in both directions, thanks to a multi-level selective structural zoom. We show how the use of AspectMaps allows for program understanding of code with aspects, revealing both a wealth of information of what can happen at one particular join point as well as allowing to see the "big picture" on a larger code base.

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Section: Visualization Pitfallsmentioning

confidence: 99%

AspectMaps: A Scalable Visualization of Join Point Shadows

Fabry

Kellens

Ducasse

2011

2011 IEEE 19th International Conference on Program Comprehension

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“…Storey, et al [15] indicate that a software visualisation system should provide directional navigation. An architectural visualisation should support the same facility.…”

Section: Navigation and Interaction (Ni)mentioning

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“…Storey, et al [15] label this as arbitrary navigation -being able to move to a location that is not necessarily reachable by direct links.…”

Section: Navigation and Interaction (Ni)mentioning

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A Framework for Software Architecture Visualisation Assessment

Gallagher

Hatch

Munro

2005

3rd IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis

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“…Since not all the dependencies between the modules in AO systems are explicit, an AO maintainer has to perform more effort to get a mental model of the source code [35]. Creating a good mental model is crucial to understand the structure of a system before attempting to modify it [24].…”

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Systems Evolution and Software Reuse in Object-Oriented Programming and Aspect-Oriented Programming

Przybyłek

2011

Objects, Models, Components, Patterns

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Abstract. Every new programming technique makes claims that software engineers want to hear. Such is the case with aspect-oriented programming (AOP). This paper describes a quasi-controlled experiment which compares the evolution of two functionally equivalent programs, developed in two different paradigms. The aim of the study is to explore the claims that software developed with aspect-oriented languages is easier to maintain and reuse than this developed with object-oriented languages. We have found no evidence to support these claims.

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Cognitive design elements to support the construction of a mental model during software exploration

Cited by 187 publications

References 50 publications

AspectMaps: A Scalable Visualization of Join Point Shadows

AspectMaps: A Scalable Visualization of Join Point Shadows

A Framework for Software Architecture Visualisation Assessment

Systems Evolution and Software Reuse in Object-Oriented Programming and Aspect-Oriented Programming

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