Clinton L. Jeffery Libros

Focusing on software visualization, this book explores its critical role in enhancing the software development lifecycle, particularly in debugging, performance tuning, and system maintenance. It addresses the challenges of creating effective visualization tools, which often have limited scope. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and professionals, the text surveys the field and introduces a research framework to simplify tool development. It includes examples of program control flow and data structure visualizations, supported by source code snippets and screen images for clarity.

Focusing on the creation of custom programming languages, this book offers insights from the creator of the Unicon language. It guides readers through the process of implementing programming languages to streamline application development, ultimately reducing both time and costs. By addressing specific pain points in various computing domains, readers will learn how to tailor languages to meet unique requirements, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness in their projects.

This book presents software visualization at a level suitable for a senior level undergraduate or graduate course, or for the interested technical professional. The approach is to give a survey of the field, and then present a specific research framework designed to reduce the effort required to write visualization tools. A wide range of simple program control flow and data structure visualizations are then presented as examples of how to obtain information about program behavior, and how to present it graphically. Source code fragments and screen images illustrate each example.