Towards More Flexibility in Software Visualization Tools

Author

Schäfer, Thorsten ; Mezini, Mira

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Darmstadt Univ. of Technol.

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Software visualization has been researched for years, but current IDEs lack support for modern visualization techniques. It seems that the tools are either focused and not applicable to a broad range of tasks, or they are generic but do not provide good support for specific tasks. What is needed are tools that provide flexibility to customize the visualization technique, layout, and appearance, and enable users to aggregate and filter information based on various attributes. We make a case for a layered software visualization framework, which exposes such flexibility to the user. Having such a tool, developers are capable to customize visualization in an easy manner, so that it is most appropriate for their current task

Keywords

program visualisation; software engineering; layered software visualization; software visualization tools; visualization customization; Aggregates; Application software; Collaborative software; Computer science; Information filtering; Information filters; Software engineering; Software systems; Software tools; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis, 2005. VISSOFT 2005. 3rd IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9540-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISSOF.2005.1684307

Filename

1684307