SDexplorer

Abstract

To understand program's behavior, using reverse-engineered sequence diagram is a valuable technique. In practice, researchers usually record execution traces and generate a sequence diagram according to them. However, the diagram can be too large to read while treating real-world software due to the massiveness of execution traces. Several studies on minimizing/compressing sequence diagrams have been proposed; however, the resulting diagram may be either still large or losing important information. Besides, existing tools are highly customized for a certain research purpose. To address these problems, we present a generic toolkit SDExplorer in this paper, which is a flexible and lightweight tool to effectively explore a massive-scale sequence diagram in a highly scalable manner. Additionally, SDExplorer supports popular features of existing tools (i.e. search, filter, grouping, etc.). We believe it is an easy-to-use and promising tool in future research to evaluate and compare the minimizing/compressing techniques in real maintenance tasks.