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Evaluating a Visual Approach for Understanding JavaScript Source Code

Year: 2020

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: To characterize the building blocks of a legacy software system (e.g., structure, dependencies), programmers usually spend a long time navigating its source code. Yet, modern integrated development environments (IDEs) do not provide appropriate means to efficiently achieve complex software comprehension tasks. To deal with this unfulfilled need, we present Hunter, a tool for the visualization of JavaScript applications. Hunter visualizes source code through a set of coordinated views that include a node-link diagram that depicts the dependencies among the components of a system, and a treemap that helps programmers to orientate when navigating its structure.

Source: International Conference on Program Comprehension

DOI: 10.1145/3387904.3389275

Authors: Martin Dias, Diego Orellana, Santiago Vidal, Leonel Merino, Alexandre Bergel

Institutions: University of Chile, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, University of Stuttgart

Language: English

Topic: Software Engineering Research

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Award: G3146585569