Fw: Visualization tools for Erlang/OTP programs?

[Thomas Arts]

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Dr Thomas Arts
     Program Manager
     Software Engineering and Management
IT-university of Gothenburg
Box 8718, 402 75 Gothenburg, Sweden

Tel +46 31 772 6031
Fax +46 31 772 4899


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Arts" <thomas.arts@REDACTED>
To: <erlang-questions@REDACTED>; "Kent Boortz" <kent@REDACTED>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: Visualization tools for Erlang/OTP programs?


> Hi Kent
>
> I made a small supervisor visualisation tool two years ago. It is
> based on Hans Nilsson's graph drawing program, whish in particular
> is good in drawing trees (what one needs for supervision trees ;0).
>
> I would recommend the SVG format nowadays. This Scaled Vector Graphics
> is a standard from Adobe that can be used to draw vector graphics. It is
> an open standard and plug-ins exist for Netscape and Explorer, for
example.
> Another cool drawing package is "dot" from Lucent (Bell Labs). There
> is a backend for dot to produce SVG.
>
> I attached my drawing software. If you would start the supervision
> tree with supervisor:start(M,F,Args), then the visualization is started
> with: visualize:supervisor(M,F,Args).
>
> I had to change "eval.erl" slightly, but with the three modules attached
and
> Hans' graph drawing package (see user contributions), this should work
well.
> Let me know if it doesn't, then I'll look into it a bit better.
>
> /Thomas
>
>
> ---
> FMICS 03, June 5-7 in Trondheim.
> Call for papers: http://www.inrialpes.fr/vasy/fmics/workshop-8/
>
>
> Dr Thomas Arts
>      Program Manager
>      Software Engineering and Management
> IT-university of Gothenburg
> Box 8718, 402 75 Gothenburg, Sweden
>
> Tel +46 31 772 6031
> Fax +46 31 772 4899
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kent Boortz" <kent@REDACTED>
> To: <erlang-questions@REDACTED>
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 4:49 AM
> Subject: Visualization tools for Erlang/OTP programs?
>
>
> >
> > Has anyone tested any general visualization tools to describe
> > Erlang/OTP programs, i.e. to visually describe the supervision,
> > process structure, messages, state etc? Like "ROOM Diagrams"?
> > Any success, i.e. was the the time it takes to draw them worth it in
> > your case? Do you find the visualization useful in the design phase
> > before coding or as a way to create internal design documumentation?
> >
> > Are any of the nine types of diagrams defined in UML usable for
> > describing Erlang/OTP programs?
> >
> > Do you use any free or commercial drawing tools that you recommend for
> > drawing diagrams to describe Erlang/OTP programs?
> >
> > The only drawings I have done myself is ascii drawings of the
> > supervision structure, I'm just curious about what others do and if
> > there is any potential for creating visual programming tools to
> > generate Erlang programs or part of Erlang programs like processes
> > that use gen_fsm,
> >
> > kent
> >
> > Ref: http://www.smartdraw.com/resources/centers/software/room.htm
> >
>
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