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Almost: exploring program traces

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NPIVM '99: Proceedings of the 1999 workshop on new paradigms in information visualization and manipulation in conjunction with the eighth ACM internation conference on Information and knowledge management

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We built a tool to visualize and explore program execution traces. Our goal was to help programmers without any prior knowledge of a program, quickly get enough knowledge about its structure so that they can make small to medium changes. In the process, a number of problems were faced and tackled concerning the efficient use of screen space, interaction with multiple concurrent views, and linking of asymmetric views

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