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MANIPULATING AND DOCUMENTING SOFTWARE STRUCTURES Margaret-Anne D. Storey School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada V5A 1S6 mstorey@cs.sfu.ca Hausi A. Muller, Kenny Wong Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada V8W 3P6 fhausi,kenw g@csr.uvic.ca An eective approach to program understanding involves browsing, exploring, and creating views that do cument software structures at multiple levels of abstraction. While exploring the many relationships in a multi-million line legacy software system, one can easily lose context. One approach to alleviate this problem is to visualize these structures using sheye-view techniques. This chapter intro duces Simple Hierarchical Multi-Persp ective (SHriMP) views. The SHriMP visualization technique has b een incorp orated into the Rigi reverse engineering system, greatly enhancing its capabilities for do cumenting software abstractions. The applicability and usefulness of SHriMP views are illustrated with selected software visualization tasks. 1 Intro duction \Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information. 1 Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning Information. The term software visualization is used to describ e many dierent pro-