Paper Info
Title
Metrics-Based 3D Visualization of Large Object-Oriented Programs
Abstract
In this paper a new approach for a metrics based software visualization is presented, which supports an efficient and effective quality assessment of large object-oriented software systems. It is based on the combination of software metrics data with structure information to form a virtual information space. This information space is visualized using 3D graph structures that allow one to represent in a uniform way many aspects and views on it. The layout approach for these graphs uses a generic similarity measure to calculate geometric distances between the graph nodes and a force-directed mapping into 3D space. A particular strength of the approach is that the resulting geometrical structures can be well interpreted with respect to the architecture and design quality of the analysed software. Such 3D visualizations have been used successfully in several case studies for the quality assessment of industrial C++/Java projects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/VISSOF.2002.1019796
VISSOFT
Keywords
Field
DocType
design quality,quality assessment,layout approach,analysed software,large object-oriented programs,large object-oriented software system,effective quality assessment,new approach,software visualization,information space,software metrics data,3d visualization,software metric,software metrics,data visualisation,object oriented programming,software quality,tree graphs,data visualization,packaging,software systems
Data mining,Data visualization,Visualization,Computer science,Software system,Theoretical computer science,Imagix 4D,Software,Software metric,Software quality,Software visualization
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-1662-9
14
1.02
References 
Authors
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Claus Lewerentz166564.65
Frank Simon2141.02