CEREBRO reveals clusters of source code that co-execute to produce behavioral features of the program throughout and within executions. We created a clustered visualization of source-code that is informed by dynamic control flow of multiple executions; each cluster represents commonly interacting logic that composes software features. In addition, we render individual executions atop the clustered multiple-execution visualization as user-controlled animations to reveal characteristics of specific executions—these animations may provide exemplars for the clustered features and provide chronology for those behavioral features, or they may reveal anomalous behaviors that do not fit with the overall operational profile of most executions. Both the clustered multiple-execution view and the animated individual-execution view provide insights for the constituent behaviors within executions that compose behaviors of whole executions. Inspired by neural imaging of human brains of people who were subjected to various external stimuli, we designed and implemented CEREBRO to reveal program activity during execution. The result has revealed the principal behaviors of execution. Those behaviors were revealed to be (in some cases) cohesive, modular source-code structures and (in other cases) cross-cutting, emergent behaviors involving multiple modules.
More to come.
- d3.js (version 3): JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data (http://d3js.org/)
- Twitter Bootstrap (version 3).
- Working Demo: http://spideruci.github.io/cerebro/
- Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/69526834
More to come.
Vijay Krishna Palepu, vpalepu [at] uci [dot] edu
James A. Jones, jajones [at] uci [dot] edu
This work is supported by the National Science Founda-
tion under awards CAREER CCF-1350837 and CCF-1116943.
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[RESEARCH-PUBLICATION-1] Palepu, Vijay Krishna and Jones, James, "Visualizing
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@INPROCEEDINGS{6650537,
author={Palepu, V.K. and Jones, J.A.},
booktitle={Software Visualization (VISSOFT), 2013 First IEEE Working
Conference on},
title={Visualizing constituent behaviors within executions},
year={2013},
month={Sept},
pages={1-4},
keywords={computer animation;data flow analysis;data visualisation;program
visualisation;source coding;THE BRAIN;behavioral feature
production;constituent behavior visualization;dynamic control flow;modular
source-code structures;neural imaging;program activity;software
features;source code clustered visualization;user-controlled
animations;Animation;Data
visualization;Force;Layout;Software;Visualization;XML},
doi={10.1109/VISSOFT.2013.6650537},}
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Palepu, V.K.; Jones, J.A., "Visualizing constituent behaviors within
executions," Software Visualization (VISSOFT), 2013 First IEEE Working
Conference on , vol., no., pp.1,4, 27-28 Sept. 2013
doi: 10.1109/VISSOFT.2013.6650537
keywords: {computer animation;data flow analysis;data visualisation;program
visualisation;source coding;THE BRAIN;behavioral feature
production;constituent behavior visualization;dynamic control flow;modular
source-code structures;neural imaging;program activity;software
features;source code clustered visualization;user-controlled
animations;Animation;Data
visualization;Force;Layout;Software;Visualization;XML},
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6650537&
isnumber=6650514
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