Speaker: Daniel Robinson
Advisor: Dr. Brownsmith
Title: Valence: A Tool for Interactive 3-D Software Visualization
Date: March, 2007
 

Abstract

Programmers responsible for software testing, maintenance, and quality assurance must understand the target program's structure and the ways in which its many pieces interact with each other and with the outside world. This is a difficult task, and often the programmer can attain this understanding only by reading thousands of lines of source code. The field of software visualization aims to facilitate program comprehension by providing programmers with visual representations of the structure of the programs they develop and maintain. The speaker has developed a program for creating such visualizations, and will provide a brief overview and demonstration of this program.