Visual Debugging of Object-Oriented Systems with the Unified Modeling Language

Fox, Wendell E.

ISBN 10: 1288308612 / ISBN 13: 9781288308613

Published by BiblioScholar, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visual Debugging of Object-Oriented Systems with the Unified Modeling Language
• Publisher: BiblioScholar
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1288308612
• ISBN 13: 9781288308613
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.