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Interactive visual debugging with UML

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Timothy Jacobs,

Benjamin MusialAuthors Info & Claims

SoftVis '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Software visualization

Pages 115 - 122

https://doi.org/10.1145/774833.774850

Published: 11 June 2003 Publication History

Abstract

Software debugging is an extremely difficult cognitive process requiring comprehension of overall application behavior along with detailed understanding of specific application components. Typical debuggers provide inadequate support for this process, focusing primarily on the details accessible through source code. To overcome this deficiency, we link dynamic program execution state to a Unified Modeling Language (UML) object diagram. We enhance the standard UML diagram with focus + context, graph layout, and color encoding techniques that organize and present objects and events in a manner that facilitates analysis of system behavior. We support debugging using high level abstractions commonly used in system design, while maintaining access to low level details with an interactive display.

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Index Terms

Interactive visual debugging with UML
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software reverse engineering
    2. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Visual languages

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