The visual code navigator: An interactive toolset for source code investigation

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, INFO VIS

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Lommerse, Gerard ^a   Nossin, Freek ^a   Voinea, Lucian ^a   Telea, Alexandru ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Multiple views; Pixel filling displays; Source code analysis; Source code visualization; Treemaps

Indexed keywords

MULTIPLE VIEWS; PIXEL FILLING DISPLAYS; SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS; SOURCE CODE VISUALIZATION; TREEMAPS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SYNTACTICS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749377813     PISSN: 1522404X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFOVIS.2005.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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