• Object-oriented visualization for performance tuning and program understanding
• Pattern visualization to study repetitive behavior and explore data structures
• Memory leak diagnosis

Live analysis

• Visualization in real time
• Burst tracing and filtering
• Shorter performance tuning process

And more topics ...

• Analysis of distributed systems
• Analysis of data-intensive systems
• Pattern extraction

 

 
 
 
 

Information Exploration

• Employ user knowledge to organize information using query-based execution slices
• Multidimensional analysis
• Navigation and drill down
• Techniques for structuring larger studies

Practice

• Jinsight tool, available on IBM alphaWorks
• Performance consulting engagements on large customer applications to gain understanding of real-world problems
• Trace collection techniques for reducing overhead

• De Pauw, W., Jensen, E., Mitchell, N., Sevitsky, G., Vlissides, J., and Yang, J., Software Visualization, State-of-the-Art Survey. LNCS 2269, Stephan Diehl (ed.), Springer Verlag, 2002
• De Pauw, W., Mitchell, N., Robillard, M., Sevitsky, G., and Srinivasan, H. Drive-by Analysis of Running Programs, Proceedings for Workshop on Software Visualization, International Conference on Software Engineering, May 12-13, 2001, Toronto Download.
• Sevitsky, G., De Pauw, W., Konuru, R. An Information Exploration Tool for Performance Analysis of Java Programs, TOOLS Europe 2001, Zurich, Switzerland, March 2001. Download.
• De Pauw, W., Sevitsky, G.  Visualizing Reference Patterns for Solving Memory Leaks in Java, in Concurrency: Practice and Experience 2000, 12: 1431-1454. Download.
• De Pauw, W., Sevitsky, G.  Visualizing Reference Patterns for Solving Memory Leaks in Java, ECOOP ‘99, June 1999, Lisbon, Portugal, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 1628, Springer Verlag, 116-134. Download.
• De Pauw, W., Lorenz, D., Vlissides, J., and Wegman, M. Execution Patterns in Object-Oriented Visualization. In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Object-oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS), Santa Fe, New Mexico (1998), 219-234.
• De Pauw, W., Kimelman D., and Vlissides, J. Visualizing Object-Oriented Software Execution, Book chapter in Software Visualization, by John T. Stasko, John B. Domingue, Marc H. Brown, and Blaine A. Price(eds .), MIT Press, 1997
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• De Pauw, W., Kimelman, D., Vlissides, J. Modeling Object-Oriented Program Execution, ECOOP ‘94, July 1994, Bologna, Italy, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 821, Springer Verlag, 163-182. Download.
• De Pauw, W., Helm, R., Kimelman, D., and Vlissides, J. Visualizing the Behavior of Object-Oriented Systems, OOPSLA '93 Conference Proceedings, Washington, D.C., September 1993, pp. 326-337. Download.

• Wim De Pauw
• Herb Derby
• Olivier Gruber
• Erik Jensen
• Ravi Konuru
• Fereydoun Maali
• Nick Mitchell
• Martin Robillard
• Gary Sevitsky
• Harini Srinivasan
• John Vlissides
• Jeaha Yang