Relo: Helping users manage context during interactive exploratory visualization of large codebases

Proceedings of the 2005 OOPSLA Workshop on Eclipse Technology eXchange, eclipse'05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 21-25

  Sinha, Vineet ^a   Karger, David ^a   Miller, Rob ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Large software systems; Program comprehension; Program understanding; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY VISUALIZATIONS; INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION; LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS; PLUG-INS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; USER INTERFACES;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 79952058376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1117696.1117701     Document Type: Conference Paper

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