Visualizing and querying software structures
Mariano P. Consens, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Arthur Ryman · 1992
Software engineering problems often involve large sets of objects and complex relationships among them.This report proposes that graphical visualization techniques can help engineers understanci and solve a class of these problems.To illustrate this, two problems are analyzed and recast using the graphical language GraphLog.The fwst problem is that of simplifying dependencies among components of a system, which translates into removing cycles from a graph.The second problem is that of designing an efficient code overlay structure, which is facilitat cd in several ways through graphical techniques.