On the Use of a Multiple View Interactive Environment for MATLAB and Octave Program Comprehension

Ivan Lessa; Glauco Carneiro; Miguel P. Monteiro; Fernando Brito e Abreu

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21410-8_49

On the Use of a Multiple View Interactive Environment for MATLAB and Octave Program Comprehension

Ivan Lessa, Glauco Carneiro, Miguel P. Monteiro, Fernando Brito e Abreu

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Abstract

MATLAB or GNU/Octave programs can become very large and complex and therefore difficult to understand and maintain. The objective of this paper is presenting an approach to mitigate this problem, based upon a multiple view interactive environment (MVIE) called Octminer. The latter provides visual resources to support program comprehension, namely the selection and configuration of several views to meet developers’ needs. For validation purposes, the authors conducted two case studies to characterize the use of Octminer in the context of software comprehension activities. The results provided initial evidences of its effectiveness to support the comprehension of programs written in the aforementioned languages.

Original language	English
Pages	640-654
Number of pages	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21410-8_49
Publication status	Published - 23 Jul 2015
Event	15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA) - Banff, Canada Duration: 22 Jun 2015 → 25 Jun 2015

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Conference	15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA)
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Banff
Period	22/06/15 → 25/06/15

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software visualization
MATLAB/Octave
software comprehension

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