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Re-documenting, Visualizing and Understanding Software System Using DocLike Viewer
Chiang Mai, Thailand December 10-December 12
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/APSEC.2003.125436810th Asia-Pacific Software Engineerin ...
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Shahida Sulaiman, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Pulau Pinang; Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Norbik Bashah Idris, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Shamsul Sahibuddin, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor
Sarina Sulaiman, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor
Visualizing the artifacts of a software system graphically has proven to improve the cognitive strategies and understanding of the subject system by programmers. This is more crucial when they need to maintain a software system with out-dated documentation or without system documentation at all. Many tools have emerged and they predominantly consist of a reverse engineering environment and a viewer to visualize software artifacts such as in the form of graphs. The tools also grant structural re-documentation of existing software system but they do not directly utilize document-like software visualization in their approaches. This paper proposes DocLike Modularized Graph (DMG) method that represents the software architectures of a reverse engineered subject system graphically in a modularized and standardized document-like manner. To realize this method, we have built a prototype tool called DocLike Viewer that enables a user to re-document, visualize and comprehend a subject system written in C language that is parsed by an existing parser. From the experiment conducted we found that our method managed to statistically improve cognition of a subject system in terms of productivity and quality to solve certain types of maintenance tasks.
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Shahida Sulaiman, Norbik Bashah Idris, Shamsul Sahibuddin, Sarina Sulaiman, "Re-documenting, Visualizing and Understanding Software System Using DocLike Viewer," apsec, pp.154, 10th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'03), 2003
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