ABSTRACT:
Understanding source codes written by other programmers are difficult particularly when the system
document is not properly updated. Even worse some software systems are not produced together with
their system documents. In spite of many Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools available
in the market, software engineers still face the problems related to software documentation. Thus
reverse engineering or software visualization workbenches might be helpful to assist their program
comprehension activity. This paper describes a software visualization prototype tool called DocLike
Viewer that employs an enhanced method of software visualization. The method is DocLike Modularized
Graph (DMG) that enables software engineers especially software maintainers to graphically visualize
the reverse engineered software artifacts to understand existing software systems prior to making
changes in a document-like, modularized way.