US 8,543,983 B2Granted

Creating hierarchical message sequence charts for visualizing user-interactive applications

AssigneeFujitsu Limited

InventorPraveen K. Murthy

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Abstract

In one embodiment, access use information associated with a user-interactive software application, the use information identifies one or more transitions between specific ones of one or more displayable views of the software application and one or more corresponding user actions that cause the transitions; and construct a hierarchical message sequence chart (hMSC) comprising one or more basic message sequence chars (bMSCs) and one or more edges linking specific ones of the bMSCs to represent the use information, comprising: represent the views and the user actions with respect to the views identified in the use information with the bMSCs; represent the transitions and the user actions that cause the transitions identified in the use information with the edges; and for each one of the transitions identified in the use information, link the bMSCs representing the views associated with the transition with the edge representing the transition.

Claims25

Dependent claims

A method comprising, by one or more computing devices:

accessing use information associated with a user-interactive software application, wherein:
the software application comprises one or more displayable views;
during execution of the software application, a transition from a first one of the views to a second one of the views is caused by a user action with respect to the first one of the views;
and
the use information identifies one or more transitions between specific ones of the views and one or more corresponding user actions that cause the transitions;
and
constructing a hierarchical message sequence chart comprising one or more basic message sequence charts and one or more edges linking specific ones of the basic message sequence charts to represent the use information, comprising:
representing the views and the user actions with respect to the views identified in the use information with the basic message sequence charts of the hierarchical message sequence chart;
representing the transitions and the user actions that cause the transitions identified in the use information with the edges of the hierarchical message sequence chart;
and
for each one of the transitions identified in the use information, linking the basic message sequence charts representing the views associated with the transition with the edge representing the transition.

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A system comprising:

a memory comprising instructions executable by one or more processors;
and
one or more processors coupled to the memory and operable to execute the instructions, the one or more processors being operable when executing the instructions to:
access use information associated with a user-interactive software application, wherein:
the software application comprises one or more displayable views;
during execution of the software application, a transition from a first one of the views to a second one of the views is caused by a user action with respect to the first one of the views;
and
the use information identifies one or more transitions between specific ones of the views and one or more corresponding user actions that cause the transitions;
and
construct a hierarchical message sequence chart comprising one or more basic message sequence charts and one or more edges linking specific ones of the basic message sequence charts to represent the use information, comprising:
represent the views and the user actions with respect to the views identified in the use information with the basic message sequence charts of the hierarchical message sequence chart;
represent the transitions and the user actions that cause the transitions identified in the use information with the edges of the hierarchical message sequence chart;
and
for each one of the transitions identified in the use information, link the basic message sequence charts representing the views associated with the transition with the edge representing the transition.

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One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software operable when executed by one or more computing devices to:

access use information associated with a user-interactive software application, wherein:
the software application comprises one or more displayable views;
during execution of the software application, a transition from a first one of the views to a second one of the views is caused by a user action with respect to the first one of the views;
and
the use information identifies one or more transitions between specific ones of the views and one or more corresponding user actions that cause the transitions;
and
construct a hierarchical message sequence chart comprising one or more basic message sequence charts and one or more edges linking specific ones of the basic message sequence charts to represent the use information, comprising:
represent the views and the user actions with respect to the views identified in the use information with the basic message sequence charts of the hierarchical message sequence chart;
represent the transitions and the user actions that cause the transitions identified in the use information with the edges of the hierarchical message sequence chart;
and
for each one of the transitions identified in the use information, link the basic message sequence charts representing the views associated with the transition with the edge representing the transition.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.