The Class Blueprint: A Visualization of the Internal Structure of Classes
Michele Lanza, Sté́phane Ducasse · Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)
Understanding classes is a key activity in object-oriented programming, since classes represent the primary abstractions from which applications are built. The main problem of this task is to quickly grasp the purpose and inner structure of a class. In this paper we discuss the class blueprint, a visualization of the inner structure of classes.