@phdthesis{Hopfner2008, author = {Hopfner, Marbod}, title = {Source Code Analysis, Management, and Visualization for PROLOG}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-36300}, school = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, year = {2008}, abstract = {This thesis deals with the management and analysis of source code, which is represented in XML. Using the elementary methods of the XML repository, the XML source code representation is accessed, changed, updated, and saved. We reason about the source code, refactor source code and we visualize dependency graphs for call analysis. The visualized dependencies between files, modules, or packages are used to structure the source code in order to get a system, which is easily to comprehend, to modify and to complete. Sophisticated methods have been developed to slice the source code in order to obtain a working package of a large system, containing only a specific functionality. The basic methods, on which the visualizations and analyses are built on can be changed like changing a plug-in. The visualization methods can be reused in order to handle arbitrary source code representations, e.g., JAML, PHPML, PROLOGML. Dependencies of other context can be visualized, too, e.g., ER diagrams, or website references. The tool SCAV supports source code visualization and analyzing methods.}, subject = {Refactoring}, language = {en} }