Virtual but visible software

Knight, Claire; Munro, Malcolm

doi:10.1109/iv.2000.859756

Cited by 74 publications

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“…A common strategy in software visualization defines a mapping between design/programming artifacts and concrete graphical elements. This process is usually known in the literature as the application of a metaphor [12]. In this context, our framework uses 3D graphical elements distributed over a 2D plane to represent an object-oriented program.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the use of inheritance with visual patterns

Denier

Sahraoui

2009

2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

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The goal of this work is to visualize inheritance in objectoriented programs to help its comprehension. We propose a single, compact view of all class hierarchies at once using a custom Sunburst layout. It enables to quickly discover interesting facts across classes while preserving the essential relationship between parent and children classes. We explain how standard inheritance metrics are mapped into our visualization. Additionally, we define a new metric characterizing similar children classes. Using these metrics and the proposed layout, a set of common visual patterns is derived. These patterns allow the programmer to quickly understand how inheritance is used and provide answers to some essential questions when performing program comprehension tasks. Our approach is evaluated through a case study that involves examples from large programs, demonstrating its scalability.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the use of inheritance with visual patterns

Denier

Sahraoui

2009

2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

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“…Tangible metaphors improve understanding and social interaction [8]. We have chosen and implemented the city metaphor [14,24], cf. Section 4.1, to increase program understandability.…”

Section: Practical Single-view Visualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For our architectural program visualization, we have chosen a city metaphor [14,24]. Our metaphor comprises the following elements, cf.…”

Section: An Intuitive City Metaphormentioning

confidence: 99%

Communicating Software Architecture using a Unified Single-View Visualization

Panas

Epperly

Quinlan

et al. 2007

12th IEEE International Conference on Engineering Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2007)

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Software is among the most complex human artifacts, and visualization is widely acknowledged as important to understanding software. In this paper, we consider the problem of understanding a software system's architecture through visualization. Whereas traditional visualizations use multiple stakeholder-specific views to present different kinds of taskspecific information, we propose an additional visualization technique that unifies the presentation of various kinds of architecture-level information, thereby allowing a variety of stakeholders to quickly see and communicate current development, quality, and costs of a software system. For future empirical evaluation of multi-aspect, single-view architectural visualizations, we have implemented our idea in an existing visualization tool, Vizz3D. Our implementation includes techniques, such as the use of a city metaphor, that reduce visual complexity in order to support single-view visualizations of large-scale programs.

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“…Most visualization techniques and tools are based on the graph metaphor (including the extensive research on graph layout algorithms). Other initiatives are the representation of programs as 3D city notations [7], solar systems [8], video games [7,9], nested boxes [10,11], 3D Space [12], etc.…”

Section: Program Visualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Knight and Munro [7] describe what they call the 'software world' -a system being visualized in the world. Cities represent source files that that may contain one or more classes which themselves are represented as districts and finally methods are shown as buildings.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%