Visualising software documents in a generic development environment

This paper describes how software visualisation can be supported in a generic environment for manipulation of software documents, using off-the-shelf graph-drawing tools. The effectiveness of the visualisation facilities achieved in a prototype implementation using the UQ* environment is illustrated by means of a call-graph visualisation case-study.

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