Interactive Visualization of Software Components with Virtual Reality Headsets

Schreiber, Andreas; Bruggemann, Marlene

doi:10.1109/vissoft.2017.20

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“…Misiak, Schreiber et al [45] proposed the island metaphor for visualizing OSGi-based software systems, introducing and emphasizing the visualization of dependencies. Schreiber et al [46] presented an interactive tool that also visualizes OSGi-based systems with their components, packages, services, and dependencies in 3D, using a different metaphor including boxes.…”

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CodeCity: On-Screen or in Virtual Reality?

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Minelli

Villaverde

et al. 2021

2021 Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)

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Over the past decades, researchers proposed numerous approaches to visualize source code. A prominent one is CODECITY, an interactive 3D software visualization that leverages the "city metaphor" to represent software system as cities: buildings represent classes (or files) and districts represent packages (or folders). Building dimensions represent values of software metrics, such as the number of methods or the lines of code. There are many implementations of CODECITY, the vast majority of them running on-screen. Recently, some implementations visualizing CODECITY in virtual reality (VR) have appeared. While exciting as a technology, VR's usefulness remains to be proven.The question we pose is: Is VR well suited to visualize CODECITY, compared to the traditional on-screen implementation?We performed an experiment in our interactive web-based application to visualize CODECITY. Users can fetch data from any git repository and visualize its source code. Our application enables users to navigate CODECITY both on-screen and in an immersive VR environment, using consumer-grade VR headsets like Oculus Quest. Our controlled experiment involved 24 participants from academia and industry. Results show that people using the VR version performed the assigned tasks in much less time, while still maintaining a comparable level of correctness.Therefore, our results show that VR is at least equally wellsuited as on-screen for visualizing CODECITY, and likely better.

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confidence: 99%

CodeCity: On-Screen or in Virtual Reality?

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Minelli

Villaverde

et al. 2021

2021 Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)

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“…Vincur et al [23] applies a city metaphor to software analysis. Schreiber & Brüggemann [24] use a modular electrical component system metaphor in VR to visualize software components.…”

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VR-UML: The Unified Modeling Language in Virtual Reality – An Immersive Modeling Experience

Oberhauser

2021

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Software models in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) can been created or automatically reverse-engineered and used for quickly gaining structural insights into larger, legacy, or unfamiliar software. But as the size, structural complexity, and interdependencies between software components in larger systems grows, two-dimensional viewing and modeling has limitations, and new ways of visualizing larger models and numerous associated diagrams of different types are needed to intuitively convey structural and relational insights. To investigate the feasibility of using Virtual Reality (VR) to create an immersive UML-based software modeling experience, this paper contributes a VR solution concept for visualizing, navigating, modeling, and interacting with software models using UML notation. An implementation shows its feasibility while an empirical evaluation highlights its potential.

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Visualization of Component-Based Software Architectures: A Comparative Evaluation of the Usability in Virtual Reality and 2D

Schaller

Schreiber

2019

Human Interface and the Management of Information. Visual Information and Knowledge Management

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Interactive Visualization of Software Components with Virtual Reality Headsets

Cited by 17 publications

References 8 publications

CodeCity: On-Screen or in Virtual Reality?

CodeCity: On-Screen or in Virtual Reality?

VR-UML: The Unified Modeling Language in Virtual Reality – An Immersive Modeling Experience

Visualization of Component-Based Software Architectures: A Comparative Evaluation of the Usability in Virtual Reality and 2D

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