Ad-hoc Runtime Object Structure Visualizations with MetaLinks

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3139903.3139912" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3139903.3139912</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3139903.3139912" target="_blank" >10.1145/3139903.3139912</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Ad-hoc Runtime Object Structure Visualizations with MetaLinks

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This paper describes an original method and a tool for an a posteriori analysis of a running object software system, specifically system's runtime structural properties. Highly context-dependent systems pose a challenge of understanding their runtime behaviour. The typical approach is to let the system run and manually observe its runtime properties, which is cognitively demanding and error-prone. Smalltalk, and Pharo in particular, focuses on providing live introspection and immediate feedback during the development. In our method, we take the advantage of these possibilities and combine them with the (relatively new) concept of metalinks as a way to hook into existing code without modifying it, and to set specific attributes to be observed. The result is an analysis tool focused on visualization of ad-hoc runtime structures -- that is, providing an analyst with a live view of the stepwise construction and runtime changes of a system based on a UML instance visualization. We demonstrate the tool on analyzing the construction loop of Pharo's Spec UI framework.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Ad-hoc Runtime Object Structure Visualizations with MetaLinks

Popis výsledku anglicky

This paper describes an original method and a tool for an a posteriori analysis of a running object software system, specifically system's runtime structural properties. Highly context-dependent systems pose a challenge of understanding their runtime behaviour. The typical approach is to let the system run and manually observe its runtime properties, which is cognitively demanding and error-prone. Smalltalk, and Pharo in particular, focuses on providing live introspection and immediate feedback during the development. In our method, we take the advantage of these possibilities and combine them with the (relatively new) concept of metalinks as a way to hook into existing code without modifying it, and to set specific attributes to be observed. The result is an analysis tool focused on visualization of ad-hoc runtime structures -- that is, providing an analyst with a live view of the stepwise construction and runtime changes of a system based on a UML instance visualization. We demonstrate the tool on analyzing the construction loop of Pharo's Spec UI framework.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

IWST '17: Proceedings of the 12th edition of the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies

ISBN

978-1-4503-5554-4

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

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Název nakladatele

ACM

Místo vydání

New York

Místo konání akce

Maribor

Datum konání akce

4. 9. 2017

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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