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- Modeling,
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Erik Doernenburg has worked in the field of enterprise applications for more than ten years. He is now employed by ThoughtWorks, and his latest interest is software visualization. In this interview he talks with InfoQ about different software visualization strategies using a combination of free tools and custom development.
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By Erik Doernenburg
on Oct 19, 2007,
News about Visualization
- Architecture
- Topics
- Code Analysis
Is today’s mainstream use of flat files the optimal way to represent code? Several discussions occurred in the blogspace in reaction to Rick Minerich’s post advocating for moving away from this paradigm towards keeping code in queryable data structures. What are the advantages of this approach and what are the trade-offs to take into consideration?
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By Sadek Drobi
on Jun 20, 2008,
- Architecture
- Topics
- Artifacts & Tools,
- Code Analysis
JetBrains
includes a Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) tool in its recently
released version 7. DSM
tools generate a representation of a codebase's dependencies in an
appealing martix visualization. This article looks at
how DSM can improve project structure
and how IDEA's DSM tool compares with alternatives.
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By Michael Bushe
on Feb 12, 2008,
- Architecture
- Topics
- Artifacts & Tools,
- Domain Specific Languages,
- Modeling,
- Programming
Is a picture always worth a thousand words?
In his recent article, “Why we write code and don’t just draw diagrams”, Dean Wampler argues that in software development the opposite is more often true.
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By Niclas Nilsson
on Nov 08, 2007,
- Architecture,
- Java
- Topics
- Artifacts & Tools,
- Debugging
When projects get so big that no one person can visualize the whole thing, tools that can visualize the architecture and measure its complexity can help. Headway Software released v2 of Structure101, "an interactive tool that shows you dependency graphs from your code-base as either diagrams (the Directed Graph) or dependency matrices." said Structure101 CTO Chris Chedgey, talking to InfoQ.
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By Floyd Marinescu
on Oct 10, 2006,