Patent
1994-09-27
1997-01-07
Jankus, Almis R.
395326, 395356, G06T 1100
Patent
active
055926002
ABSTRACT:
A dynamic visual presentation animates how classes or objects send messages and relate to each other in an object-oriented program during the program's execution. The presentation depicts classes or objects as graphical nodes on a computer display. The relative proximity of these nodes varies to reflect a specific relationship between classes or objects: either communication, creation frequency, or aggregation. Communication between objects is also dynamically depicted as a set of one or more line segments each passing through two or more of the nodes that have classes of methods on a call stack. Mapping these conceptual relationships into dynamic, spatial relationships makes them explicit and observable, allowing a user to better understand, debug, and tune the object-oriented program.
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Cina Vincent J.
De Pauw Wim
Helm Andrew R.
Kimelman Douglas N.
Vlissides John M.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Jankus Almis R.
Percello Louis J.
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