| 摘要 |
An interactive method and apparatus for displaying structure, statistics, and characteristics of a large software systems, i.e of more than one million li nes of code. This method and apparatus displays important structure and statistics in a manner where the entire software system can be visualized as an entity. The visualization technique is to present similar subdivisions of the code in simila r geometric shapes of having a substantially equal reference frames, such as a substantially constant row heights, so relative sizes of the subdivisions can be understood. In addition so the sizes, different shading and coloring modes can b e used to display changes, software errors and software fixes. Further, if data of the various releases of a software system are available, the evolution of the system through its releases can be animated to provide a greater understanding of the h istory of a large software system. |
