Visualizing live software systems in 3D

Proceedings - SOFTVIS 06: ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 47-56

  Greevy, Orla ^a   Lanza, Michele ^b   Wysseier, Christoph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^c Netstylech GmbH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3D visualization; Dynamic analysis; Feature traces; Reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

DATA COMPRESSION; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

FEATURE EXECUTION; FEATURE TRACES; OBJECT INSTANTIATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION; ZOOMING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 34948854182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1148493.1148501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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