[Soot-list] Heros visualize exploded graph

[Eric Bodden]

Hello.

> I see that you are looking for something in XCode - that is a bit sad,
> as many people wouldn't be able to use that - but maybe a lot of
> back-end work can be done to enable other visualizations.

No you misunderstood. XCode was just an example of what could be done.
I am looking for an integration into Eclipse.

> I'll throw an idea around... Some time back, I played with Neo4J and I
> saw some nice graph visualization tools.
> http://www.neo4j.org/develop/visualize
>
> At the time, I ran into memory problems when querying the CFG, which is
> why I decided not to invest too much on that technology for my PhD. But
> they have been progressing very very fast, and it could be much more
> suitable now.

That's not bad but I guess I would prefer some visualization that
actually connects to the code somehow.

> One of the important things I need is being able to report the taint
> flow from source to sink to my users - which the current way the results
> are reported make very hard :(

Yep, I share your pain.

> If the visualization method allows to generate that kind of feedback, it
> would be very appreciated.
>
> Thanks for your trick about populating a data structure - I tried it and
> it works satisfactorily!

Excellent.

Eric