Abstract GXL (Graph eXchange Language) is designed to be a standard exchange format
for graph-based tools. GXL is defined as an XML sublanguage, whic h offers support for …

To maintain and understand large applications, it is important to know their architecture. The
first problem is that unlike classes and packages, architecture is not explicitly represented in …

GUPRO is an integrated workbench to support program understanding of heterogenous
software systems on arbitrary levels of granularity. GUPRO can be adapted to specific needs …

In this paper we present a hierarchy-based visualization approach for software metrics using
Treemaps. Contrary to existing rectangle-based Treemap layout algorithms, we introduce …

This paper describes ongoing work toward the development of a standard software
exchange format (SEF), for exchanging information among tools that analyze computer …

The use of dynamic information to aid in software understanding is a common practice
nowadays. One of the many approaches concerns the comprehension of execution traces. A …

Understanding a system's implementation without prior knowledge is a hard task for
reengineers in general. However, some degree of automatic aid is possible. The authors …

A lightweight fact extractor is presented that utilizes XML tools, such as XPath and XSLT to
extract static information from C++ source code programs. The source code is first converted …

A means to add explicit structure to program source code is presented. XML is used to
augment source code with syntactic information from the parse tree. More importantly …

Shimba is a reverse engineering environment to support the understanding of Java software
systems. Shimba integrates the Rigi and SCED tools to analyze and visualize the static and …