Comprehension with[in] virtual environment visualisations

Knight, Claire; Munro, Malcolm

doi:10.1109/wpc.1999.777733

Cited by 53 publications

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“…This kind of software visualization provides a large-scale understanding of the overall system. Knight and Munro [126] were the first to try representing software as Cities. They named their visualization "The Software World" [14], [127].…”

Section: Visualizing Software Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualization of the Static Aspects of Software: A Survey

Caserta

Zendra

2011

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

113

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Abstract-Software is usually complex and always intangible. In practice, the development and maintenance processes are timeconsuming activities mainly because software complexity is difficult to manage. Graphical visualization of software has the potential to result in a better and faster understanding of its design and functionality, thus saving time and providing valuable information to improve its quality. However, visualizing software is not an easy task because of the huge amount of information comprised in the software. Furthermore, the information content increases significantly once the time dimension to visualize the evolution of the software is taken into account. Human perception of information and cognitive factors must thus be taken into account to improve the understandability of the visualization. In this paper, we survey visualization techniques, both 2D-and 3D-based, representing the static aspects of the software and its evolution. We categorize these techniques according to the issues they focus on, in order to help compare them and identify the most relevant techniques and tools for a given problem.

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Section: Visualizing Software Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualization of the Static Aspects of Software: A Survey

Caserta

Zendra

2011

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

113

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“…However, when data becomes more complex, e.g., has higher dimensionality, their limits become quickly apparent. 3D representations have two main advantages compared to their 2D counterparts: (1) there is an additional spatial dimension available for value encoding and (2) they help shift the viewing process from being a cognitive task to being a perception task [9]. This enables a much faster processing of the contents [10] and makes them more natural and appealing to us.…”

Section: Main Requirements For Abstract Data Visualizationmentioning

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Involve Me and I Will Understand!–Abstract Data Visualization in Immersive Environments

Rosenbaum

Bottleson

Liu

et al. 2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Software visualization tools are often advocated as an effective means of aiding program understanding by creating graphical representations of the subject system "to reduce complexity of the exiting software system under consideration" [7]. While there is no doubt that such visual images can be artistically pleasing to the eye, there is little scientific evidence that such forms of graphical documentation are superior to textual documentation in effectively aiding program understanding.…”

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A qualitative assessment of the efficacy of UML diagrams as a form of graphical documentation in aiding program understanding

Tilley

Huang

2003

Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Documentation

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Graphical documentation is often characterized as an effective aid in program understanding. However, it is an open question exactly which types of graphical documentation are most suitable for which types of program understanding tasks (and in which specific usage contexts). The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the de facto standard for modeling modern software applications. This paper describes an experiment to assess the qualitative efficacy of UML diagrams in aiding program understanding. The experiment had participants analyze a series of UML diagrams and answer a detailed questionnaire concerning a hypothetical software system. Results from the experiment suggest that the UML's efficacy in support of program understanding is limited by factors such as ill-defined syntax and semantics, spatial layout, and domain knowledge.

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Comprehension with[in] virtual environment visualisations

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Cited by 53 publications

References 9 publications

Visualization of the Static Aspects of Software: A Survey

Visualization of the Static Aspects of Software: A Survey

Involve Me and I Will Understand!–Abstract Data Visualization in Immersive Environments

A qualitative assessment of the efficacy of UML diagrams as a form of graphical documentation in aiding program understanding

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