Name
Abstract | ||
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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 task-specific 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. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1109/ICECCS.2007.20 | ICECCS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
architecture-level information,software system,single-view visualization,communicating software architecture,unified single-view visualization,existing visualization tool,understanding software,single-view architectural visualization,traditional visualization,task-specific information,additional visualization technique,city metaphor,software maintenance,project management,software systems,computer architecture,software architecture,data visualization,navigation | Systems engineering,Software analytics,Computer science,Visualization,Software architecture description,Software system,Resource-oriented architecture,Software visualization,Software construction,Software development | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
0-7695-2895-3 | 13 | 0.67 |
References | Authors | |
24 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Panas | 1 | 87 | 3.39 |
| Thomas Epperly | 2 | 45 | 7.67 |
| Daniel Quinlan | 3 | 139 | 8.27 |
| Andreas Saebjornsen | 4 | 22 | 1.24 |
| Richard Vuduc | 5 | 1343 | 100.74 |