Title
Classifying software visualization tools using the Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive domain
Abstract
There are a lot of software visualization tools existing for various purposes. Therefore, how to choose the right visualization tool for a specific task becomes an important issue. Although there are a few taxonomies for classifying visualization tools, each has its own defects. This paper proposes a new classification schema based on the widely used Bloom's cognitive taxonomy. We summarize a set of questions for each level of the Bloom taxonomy using the well defined verbs, to identify if the visualization tool belongs to the individual cognitive level, which in turn can determine the purposes of the tool. We also conduct case studies on four tools to evaluate this new approach. The result demonstrates that the new classification schema can provide good guidance for people to choose a useful visualization tool.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090082
CCECE
Keywords
Field
DocType
visualization tools,bloom's cognitive taxonomy,bloom's taxonomy,software visualization tools classification,cognitive domain,program visualisation,classification,classification schema,software engineering,software visualization,taxonomy,animation,java,software measurement,software systems,visualization,concrete,computer graphics,cinematography,unified modeling language,data visualization
World Wide Web,Data visualization,Information visualization,Information retrieval,Computer science,Visualization,Bloom's taxonomy,Software system,Control engineering,Software visualization,Schema (psychology),Software measurement
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0840-7789 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-3508-1
978-1-4244-3508-1
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shaochun Xu113419.35
Xuhui Chen2112.41
Dapeng Liu31909.41