Software Visualization Tools for Component Reuse

This paper describes our experiences with our software visualization tools for web-based visualization of remotely executing object-oriented software. The motivation of this work is to allow developers to browse web-based software repositories to explore existing code components and frameworks by creating visual documentation. Components are test driven to capture their static and run-time information in program traces and are then transformed into useful visualizations. Visualizations can help developers understand what a component does, how it works, and whether or not it can be reused in a new program