Coherent Software Cities

Author

Steinbrückner, Frank

Author_Institution

Software & Syst. Eng. Res. Group, Brandenburg Univ. of Technol., Cottbus, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

12-18 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Coherent Software Cities are a software visualization approach which adopts the city metaphor to support the comprehension of various aspects of evolving software systems. For this purpose, the approach implements a three-staged modeling chain yielding coherent sets of application specific visualizations. In this context, a new layout approach for software cities is presented, which explicitly takes development history into account. Its effects are twofold: First, evolution becomes visible in the layouts, which allows for supporting new application scenarios. Second, layouts evolve smoothly and stable during system evolution, which allows software cities to be used online, i.e. during ongoing system development and maintenance.

Keywords

program visualisation; software maintenance; city metaphor; coherent software cities; software system evolution; software visualization; system development; system maintenance; Cities and towns; Software; Visualization; software cities; software evolution; software visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Timisoara

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8630-4

Electronic_ISBN

1063-6773

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2010.5610421

Filename

5610421