Dynamic Data-Flow Analysis With Dacite: Evaluating an Integrated Data-Flow Visualization Approach
Troost, Laura; Neugebauer, Jonathan; Kuchen, Herbert
Research article in edited proceedings (conference) | Peer reviewedAbstract
According to different studies, analyzing the data-flow coverage when testing programs is a highly effective approach to ensure software quality. However, there is a need for tools making an effective and comprehensible visualization of a program's data flow easily accessible. With Dacite, we intend to meet this need by visualizing data-flows of Java programs within multiple editing environments based on the Language Server Protocol (LSP). We present our visualization approach and outline how we used the LSP for realizing the visualization. We evaluate Dacite based on a usability study giving insights in the effectiveness and comprehensibility of the data-flow visualization.
Details about the publication
Publisher: Kaindl, Hermann; Mannion, Mike; Maciaszek, Leszek A.
Book title: Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering
Page range: 251-270
Publishing company: Springer Nature
Place of publication: Cham
Title of series: Communications in Computer and Information Science (ISSN: 1865-0937)
Volume of series: 2028
Status: Published
Release year: 2024
Conference: 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE, Prag, Czech Republic
ISBN: 978-3-031-64182-4
Keywords: Data-flow analysis; Bytecode analysis; Java instrumentation; Software testing; Language server protocol; Usability testing
Authors from the University of Münster
| Kuchen, Herbert | Practical Computer Science Group (PI) |
| Neugebauer, Jonathan | Practical Computer Science Group (PI) |
| Troost, Laura | Practical Computer Science Group (PI) |