Section: Software

SourceCity

Participants : Erwan Douaille [Correspondant] , Igor Stasenko, Guillaume Larcheveque, Stéphane Ducasse.

Modern systems are too complex. Understanding and analyzing these systems is very hard and tedious (thousand of classes, millions of lines of code). One needs an overview of the system that allows to discover important parts in the system, weak points, suspicious components. SourceCity is a powerful 3D tool that can help to understand quickly how a system works by taking the metaphor of a city buildings. By looking at tall, large, low building, one can identify different properties of the software components being represented.