Visualization of Message Passing By: Jesse Szwedko

Literature Survey Yielded a few different approaches:  Information murals  Theard Arcs  prefuse

Information murals Used to visualize interactions between objects and functions in, specifically, C++ programs Uses a modified call graph Allows user to identify message patterns visually (built on top of Motif) Jerding, D.F. and Stasko, J.T. and Ball, T. Visualizing message patterns in object-oriented program executions. ICSE'97

Information murals Jerding, D.F. and Stasko, J.T. and Ball, T. and Georgia Institute of Technology. Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center Visualizing message patterns in object-oriented program executions 1996

Information murals Jerding, D.F. and Stasko, J.T. and Ball, T. and Georgia Institute of Technology. Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center Visualizing message patterns in object-oriented program executions 1996

Thread Arcs Visualize messages in a conversational style (similar to gmail.com) Differentiate between contributors and recipients Performs well for “bushy” threads Kerr, B., Thread arcs: An thread visualization InfoVis 2003

Thread Arcs

prefuse Java and XML based Very flexible and simple to use Heer, J. and Card, S.K. and Landay, J.A. Prefuse: a toolkit for interactive information visualization. CHI'05