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The Visual Code Navigator: An Interactive Toolset for Source Code Investigation

Evolution view

Symbol viewSyntactic view

G. Lommerse, F. Nossin, L. Voinea, A. Telea, Eindhoven University, the Netherlands

2Download the demo at: www.win.tue.nl/~lvoinea/VCN.html

Syntactic View: overlays the code text with structure information

uses a generalized shaded cushion metaphor

generalizes syntax highlighting

useful for quickly navigating source code

Symbol View: shows compiled interface objects (linker view)

uses a cushioned treemap metaphor

useful for understanding object file structureEvolution View: shows evolution in time of files in a project

uses a matrix of dense pixel displays

useful for understanding code change

Download the demo at: www.win.tue.nl/~lvoinea/VCN.html

The Visual Code Navigator: An Interactive Toolset for Source Code Investigation

G. Lommerse, F. Nossin, L. Voinea, A. Telea, Eindhoven University, the Netherlands