KIT of Tools for Investigating Eclipse Source

Project description
Tool list & descriptions
Installation instructions
Usage examples in video clips
Downloads
Members
Thanks

Project description

The KITTIES toolbox is a framework for eclipse plug-ins that are intended for use in the field of Program Understanding or Program Comprehension.
It also includes a comprehensive set of tools that are both useful for program understanding and also demonstrate the wide array of functionality provided for the plug-in developer.
The most powerful feature provided by the framework is the Simulator. It allows any plug-in that extends the proper extension point to gather and analyze run-time information during a real run of eclipse (this kind of plug-in is called a Dynamic Tool). The simulator allows the researcher (using a special tool) to create multiple breakpoints in one action by selecting types of methods and classes where the breakpoints will be laid. Then, the dynamic tool can gather information at these given breakpoints.
Many other services are supplied to dynamic tools as well as to plug-ins which do not need to gather run-time information, called Static Tools. Among these services are GUI components, XML loading/saving and more.
The included tools allow a researcher to perform many actions, including:

Identifying the classes invloved in an eclipse GUI action
Gathering method flow information on run-time (which method was called when, and by which method)
Gathering object state information on run-time
Identifying micro-patterns in the classes

and more.

Tool list & descriprtions

Breakpoint manager - creates breakpoint description files for the simulator.
Action Selection tool - allows the identification of classes associated with a GUI action.
State/Flow tool - an extensible tool for gathering runtime information on method flow and object state, with the following extensions:

State Monitor tool - allows object state monitoring (field values over time).

Type Statistics tool - type statistics gathering tool.
Method Flow tool - method call tracking tool
Flow Statistics tool - method flow statistics analyzer tool.

Dependancy tool - displays a UML diagram of class/package depecndancies for a selected class/package.
Micropattern tool - allows identification of micro-patterns in a selected class and statistics gathering for a given software corpus.

Installation instructions

Before you install the KITTIES

The KITTIES requires the following:

Installation

To install the KITTIES, follow these steps:

Click here to download the KITTIES package. Choose "Save as..." or "Save to disk".
Unzip the saved file, kitties.zip, into the eclipse folder.

Usage examples in video clips

Downloads

The KITTIES (jars)
The KITTIES requirements document, design and ATP (Word Document) (PDF Document)
The KITTIES JUnit tests as eclipse projects

Members

From left to right:

Jonathan Avraham
Eyal Dror
Karawan Shahla
Natalia Tarasov
Jenny Gritsayenko

Thanks

Oren Mishli and Shmuel Katz, for the project guidance
Shahar Dag, for running a tight ship - the Software and Systems Development Laboratory, where we spend hundreds of hours, dozens of them consecutive...
All the other projects this year (2006), for the help and exchange of opinions.
All the professors and assistants of the Computer Science department, for teaching us how to become good software engineers.

KIT of Tools for Investigating Eclipse Source

Contents

Project description

Tool list & descriprtions

Installation instructions

Before you install the KITTIES

Installation

Usage examples in video clips

Action Selection

Using the Simulator

Dynamic Tools

Dynamic Analysis Tools as Static Tools

Micro-pattern Tools

Downloads

Members

Thanks