From the Concrete to the Abstract: Visual Representations of Program Execution
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Programmers have always been curious about what their programs are doing, especially when the behavior is not what they are expecting. Since program execution is intricate and involved, visualization has long been used to provided the programmer with appropriate insights into program execution. This paper looks at the evolution of visual representations of program execution, showing how they have moved from concrete representations of relatively small programs to abstract representations of larger systems. Based on this, we describe the challenges implicit in future execution visualizations and methodologies that can meet these challenges.
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Visual representations of executing programs
December 22, 2006 1 Visual Representations of Executing Programs Steven P. Reiss Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence, RI 02912-1910 401-863-7641, FAX: 401-863-7657 {spr}@cs.brown.edu Abstract Programmers have always been curious about what their programs are doing while it is executing, especially when the behavior is not what they are expecting. Since program execution i...
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