THORR: a focus + context method for visualising large software systems

dc.contributor.author	McCarthy, Eoin
dc.contributor.author	Exton, Chris
dc.date.accessioned	2012-05-09T09:05:21Z
dc.date.available	2012-05-09T09:05:21Z
dc.date.issued	2004
dc.identifier.citation	Third ITiCSE (ACM)	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10344/2155
dc.description	peer-reviewed	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Many attempts have been made to construct tools that aid a programmers understand- ing of source code and system structure. Syntactic highlighting and tabbed interfaces can only be useful to a degree; greater steps need to be taken to accelerate programmer com- prehension and in reducing programming and maintenance times. This paper presents a new programming environment for software engineers, THORR. The programming envi- ronment hopes to overcome some of the shortcomings currently associated with similar visualisation projects, in terms of balance between level of detail and context, by using 'Degree-of-Interest' information visualisation techniques to implement an attention reac- tive user interface. An overview of the prototype tool and its basic functionality is also given.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	Association for Computing Machinery	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Third ITiCSE (ACM);
dc.subject	THORR	en_US
dc.subject	software systems	en_US
dc.subject	method	en_US
dc.title	THORR: a focus + context method for visualising large software systems	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject	en_US
dc.type.supercollection	all_ul_research	en_US
dc.type.supercollection	ul_published_reviewed	en_US
dc.contributor.sponsor	SFI	en_US
dc.rights.accessrights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess