Dynamic visualisation of software state
James R. Ashford, Neville Churcher, Warwick Irwin · 2011
The size and complexity of software systems presents many challenges to developers. Software visualisation techniques can help make more manageable tasks across the development cycle. In this paper we focus on the dynamic visualisation of software state---an important element in supporting activities such as debugging. We propose Pseudo-Breakpoints as a means of collecting data and making it available to specialised visualisation components. We describe the implementation of this concept in Eclipse and present some example visualisations.