Profiling 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.