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SDexplorer: a generic toolkit for smoothly exploring massive-scale sequence diagram

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Kaixie Lyu,

Kunihiro Noda,

Takashi KobayashiaAuthors Info & Claims

ICPC '18: Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Program Comprehension

Pages 380 - 384

https://doi.org/10.1145/3196321.3196366

Published: 28 May 2018 Publication History

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Abstract

To understand program's behavior, using reverse-engineered sequence diagram is a valuable technique. In practice, researchers usually record execution traces and generate a sequence diagram according to them. However, the diagram can be too large to read while treating real-world software due to the massiveness of execution traces.

Several studies on minimizing/compressing sequence diagrams have been proposed; however, the resulting diagram may be either still large or losing important information. Besides, existing tools are highly customized for a certain research purpose. To address these problems, we present a generic toolkit SDExplorer in this paper, which is a flexible and lightweight tool to effectively explore a massive-scale sequence diagram in a highly scalable manner. Additionally, SDExplorer supports popular features of existing tools (i.e. search, filter, grouping, etc.). We believe it is an easy-to-use and promising tool in future research to evaluate and compare the minimizing/compressing techniques in real maintenance tasks.

SDExplorer is available at https://lyukx.github.io/SDExplorer/.

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ICPC '18: Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Program Comprehension

May 2018

423 pages

ISBN:9781450357142

DOI:10.1145/3196321

General Chair:
Foutse Khomh
École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
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Chanchal K. Roy
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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Janet Siegmund
University of Passau, Germany

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