Alison Fernandez BlancoJuan Pablo Sandoval AlcocerAlexandre Bergel2026-03-222026-03-22201810.1109/vissoft.2018.00013https://doi.org/10.1109/vissoft.2018.00013https://andeanlibrary.org/handle/123456789/50392Citaciones: 7Profiling the memory consumption of a software execution is usually carried out by characterizing calling-context trees. However, the plurality nature of this data-structure makes it difficult to adequately and efficiently exploit in practice. As a consequence, most of anomalies in memory footprints are addressed either manually or in an ad-hoc way. We propose an interactive visualization of the execution context related to object productions. Our visualization augments the traditional calling-context tree with visual cues to characterize object allocation sites.We performed a qualitative study involving eight software engineers conducting a software execution memory assessment. As a result, we found that participants find our visualization as beneficial to characterizing a memory consumption and to reducing the overall memory footprint.enComputer scienceVisualizationMemory footprintSoftware visualizationProfiling (computer programming)SoftwareExploitMemory leakContext (archaeology)Memory managementarticle