jGRASP

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jGRASP

• Tse-Wen Tom Wang
• Sam Madden
• Software Engineering
• 2/20/2002

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What is jGRASP?

• Integrated IDE for Java / C / C / Ada
• Features
• Syntax Hilighting
• Graphical Debugger
• UML View
• Complexity Profile Graph (CPG)
• Code Structure Diagram (CSD)
• Most value-added features are for code
  understanding, not development.

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Demo
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Cognitive Issues

• UML
• Standard, high-level representation
• Probably aids understanding
• CSD
• Shows blocks, nesting -- not clear its useful
• Hiding blocks may be useful
• CPG
• Metrics are very broken
• Complexity is an inadequate proxy for buggy

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