Reverse Engineering by Visualizing and Querying

The automatic extraction of high-level structural information from code is important both for software maintenance and reuse. Instead of using special purpose tools, we explore the use of a general purpose data visualization system called Hy+ for querying and visualizing information about object-oriented software systems. Hy+ supports visualization and visual query of arbitrary graph-like databases. We store information about software systems in a database and use the general purpose tool Hy+ for analyzing the source code and visualizing various relationships...