Flexible Snapshot Creation in Debugging Sessions for Code Cities

Software visualization tools assist developers in understanding programs by presenting static, dynamic, and evolutionary aspects of software. In this poster manuscript, we present our ongoing work on enabling snapshot-based visualizations of runtime behavior for debugging. Developers can manually create snapshots at breakpoints during a debugging session to precisely visualize execution traces within custom-defined intervals. This fine-grained approach is intended to reduce cognitive load and support program comprehension.