Visualization Tools User's Guide


Introduction to the Visualization Tools

The Visualization Tools feature is a growing suite of visual tools and associated accessories for rapidly gaining an understanding of program (mis)behavior.

You can use these tools to observe program behavior, as it occurs, and to explore object state and relationships.

The following chapters explain how to use the tools of this feature.

Together, and along with the other tools of the IBM Smalltalk programming environment -- debuggers, inspectors, and browsers -- these tools form a very powerful facility for understanding program behavior. This can be invaluable to a programmer, because gaining an understanding of program behavior is central to debugging, tuning, and reuse of programs, class libraries, and application frameworks.

Although very simple in concept, these tools can lead to significant improvements in the productivity of day-to-day Smalltalk programming.


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