Visual Debugging of Object-Oriented Systems With the Unified Modeling Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781288308613)

The Department of Defense (DoD) is developing a Joint Battlespace Infosphere, linking a large number of data sources and user applications. Debugging and analysis tools are required to aid in this process. Debugging of large object-oriented systems is a difficult cognitive process that requires understanding of both the overall and detailed behavior of the application. In addition, many such applications linked through a distributed system add to this complexity. Standard debuggers do not utilize visualization techniques, focusing mainly on information extracted directly from the source code. To overcome this deficiency, this research designs and implements a methodology that enables developers to analyze, troubleshoot and evaluate object-oriented systems using visualization techniques. It uses the standard UML class diagram coupled with visualization features such as focus+context, animation, graph layout, color encoding and filtering techniques to organize and present information in a manner that facilitates greater program and system comprehension.

Author: Wendell E. Fox
ISBN-10: 1288308612
ISBN-13: 9781288308613
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2012
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31d