Visualizing the Execution of Java Programs

Pauw, Wim De; Jensen, Erik P.; Mitchell, N.; Sevitsky, Gary; Vlissides, John; Yang, Jeaha

doi:10.1007/3-540-45875-1_12

Cited by 142 publications

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“…Jinsight [3] is a tool that visualizes the run-time behavior of a program. Jinsight collecting only the specified runtime information, reduces the amount of size of information to be visualized.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A sequence diagram is a diagram that represents the sequence of messages passing of programs along a time line and is suitable for representing the behavior of object-oriented programs [2]. There are many tools [3]- [5] that support automatic generation of a sequence diagram from execution traces. However, it is still difficult to understand this behavior because the size of automatically generated sequence diagrams from the massive amounts of execution traces tends to be beyond the developer's capacity.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Reticella: An Execution Trace Slicing and Visualization Tool Based on a Behavior Model

Noda

Kobayashi

Yamamoto

et al. 2012

IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

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SUMMARYProgram comprehension using dynamic information is one of key tasks of software maintenance. Software visualization with sequence diagrams is a promising technique to help developer comprehend the behavior of object-oriented systems effectively. There are many tools that can support automatic generation of a sequence diagram from execution traces. However it is still difficult to understand the behavior because the size of automatically generated sequence diagrams from the massive amounts of execution traces tends to be beyond developer's capacity. In this paper, we propose an execution trace slicing and visualization method. Our proposed method is capable of slice calculation based on a behavior model which can treat dependencies based on static and dynamic analysis and supports for various programs including exceptions and multi-threading. We also introduce our tool that perform our proposed slice calculation on the Eclipse platform. We show the applicability of our proposed method by applying the tool to two Java programs as case studies. As a result, we confirm effectiveness of our proposed method for understanding the behavior of object-oriented systems.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reticella: An Execution Trace Slicing and Visualization Tool Based on a Behavior Model

Noda

Kobayashi

Yamamoto

et al. 2012

IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

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“…However, most trace extraction and visualization efforts to date (e.g., [14,31,33,49,53,56,57]) consider the trace at the code level. In contrast, our traces are abstracted to the model level; we only trace events that are relevant to the model defined by the user, and our traces embed information about the progress of the model, its states etc., which do not always exist explicitly in the code of the reference program.…”

Section: Execution Trace Visualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

On tracing reactive systems

Maoz

Harel

2010

Softw Syst Model

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We present a rich and highly dynamic technique for analyzing, visualizing, and exploring the execution traces of reactive systems. The two inputs are a designer's interobject scenario-based behavioral model, visually described using a UML2-compliant dialect of live sequence charts (LSC), and an execution trace of the system. Our method allows one to visualize, navigate through, and explore, the activation and progress of the scenarios as they "come to life" during execution. Thus, a concrete system's runtime is recorded and viewed through abstractions provided by behavioral models used for its design, tying the visualization and exploration of system execution traces to model-driven engineering. We support both event-based and real-time-based tracing, and use details-on-demand mechanisms, multi-scaling grids, and gradient coloring methods. Novel model exploration techniques include semanticsbased navigation, filtering, and trace comparison. The ideas are implemented and tested in a prototype tool called the Tracer.

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“…Pablo [44] provides analysis and presentation of performance data for massively parallel distributed memory systems. Jinsight [43] is a system for the visual exploration of the run-time behavior of complex Java programs.…”

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MOVIS: A system for visualizing distributed mobile object environments

Frishman

Tal

2008

Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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This paper presents MOVIS -a system for visualizing mobile object frameworks. In such frameworks, the objects can migrate to remote hosts, along with their state and behavior, while the application is running. An innovative graph-based visualization is used to depict the physical and the logical connections in the distributed object network. Scalability is achieved by using a focus+context technique jointly with a user-steered clustering algorithm. In addition, an event synchronization model for mobile objects is presented. The system has been applied to visualizing several mobile object applications.

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Visualizing the Execution of Java Programs

Cited by 142 publications

References 17 publications

Reticella: An Execution Trace Slicing and Visualization Tool Based on a Behavior Model

Reticella: An Execution Trace Slicing and Visualization Tool Based on a Behavior Model

On tracing reactive systems

MOVIS: A system for visualizing distributed mobile object environments

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