WCTP2015 Talk

Posted on September 22, 2015

Design and Implementation of an Advanced Source Code Reading Tool for Framework-based Software

Yuu Ohmura & Takuo Watanabe
5th Workshop on Computation: Theory and Practice (WCTP 2015), Cebu, Sep. 22-24, 2015.

Abstract

We propose an advanced reading aid tool that targets source code using frameworks. This tool helps programmers by displaying abstraction level and code level views that automatically synchronize with each other. For example, the tool can be configured to display UML class/sequence diagram views and a code level view with debugging information, where each view shows the current execution point of the target code. One does not get lost after switching views from one to another since the tool provides properly synchronized views. The goal of this work is to show by experiments that the use of this tool increases the comprehensibility of framework-based codes. This paper reports our current research progress in the development of the tool.

Publication

Yuu Ohmura & Takuo Watanabe, Design and Implementation of an Advanced Source Code Reading Tool for Framework-based Software, In Theory and Practice of Computation, Proceedings of Workshop on Computation: Theory and Practice (WCTP2015), World Scientific, pp. 106-111, Apr., 2017.
DOI:10.1142/9789813202818_0007