A Principled Taxonomy of Software Visualization

Price, Bob; Baecker, Ronald M.; Small, Ian

doi:10.1006/jvlc.1993.1015

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“…Design frameworks have an established history in interface design, and have shown their value in providing terminology to categorize ideas [170] and organize complex concepts into logical hierarchies [163]. Design frameworks often accompany either the introduction of a previously unexplored concept (e.g.…”

Section: Design Frameworkmentioning

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The personal cockpit

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Finnegan

Irani

2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Section: Design Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The personal cockpit

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Finnegan

Irani

2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Software engineers have similar problems when trying to understand computer programs (Dijkstra [25] observed in 1968 that "our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed"), and systems have been created to visualize and animate program control and data structures (eg: [69][72] [62]). Wiggins [90] reviews many of these systems, and concludes that "While it seems to be the consensus that animations are helpful, as yet no study has substantiated that fact".…”

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A Framework for Linking Projects and Project Management Methods

Dale

Churcher

Irwin

2005

Product Focused Software Process Improvement

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Software development processes such as the Waterfall process and Extreme Programming are Project Management Methods (PMMs) which are well known and widely used. However, conventional Project Management (PM) lacks the process concepts expressed in PMMs, and the connection between PMMs and PM is not much explored in the literature. Our research problem is to make this connection.We present data models for PM and PMM, in a framework that can articulate the PM-to-PMM relationship, illustrating with simple examples. Tools and visualizations created in terms of our framework can make use of the familiarity, history and context of project management tools, and the prescriptiveness and reactivity of PMMs, and we believe these may assist the management of complicated projects, such as IT projects.Project Mentor, a prototype Java/XML implementation of the framework semantics, can create and then revise a "PMM-aware" project, conforming to a specified PMM. The PM-to-PMM connection is persistent in project data, and we describe a visualization of the "footsteps" of a PMM in project data that does not rely on the state of a PMM process. The visualization can also be used by Project Mentor, to indicate the state of a PMM.We test for possible applications of our framework with a case study and survey of some existing project data, and conclude with a description of further work.

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“…For illustrations of what we seek, see Baecker (1981), DiGiano and Baecker (1992), and Price, Baecker, and Small (1993).…”

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SOFTWARE -DESIGN, CREATION, USE, AND IMPACT is a new experimental first-year university course designed to demystify computers by empowering students to understand fundamental software concepts and to create simple programs that process text, draw pictures, produce sounds, and interact with their users in novel and imaginative ways.Software is created in LCSI Microworlds, an environment in which students can easily build and test simple computer programs and interactive applications. A toolkit is planned to aid in this process by enabling them to watch and listen to the operation of their programs. Students are encouraged to enhance their understanding of programs and computer science concepts through collaborative work.No previous experience with computers or programming is required, nor is an ability with mathematics. The course is designed for students who are able to explore and articulate concepts and express themselves in English. Female student are particularly encouraged to apply. The class is limited to 20 students.The course also examines in depth significant applications of computers and methods and tools for software design. Understanding is enriched through the study of exemplary application systems built in Microworlds. Significant time is devoted to an analysis of the social impact of computers, including issues such as jobs, control, privacy, and unreliable computers.Students also work individually or in teams during the second semester on their own projects, which they report on both orally and in writing. Projects deal with a use of Microworlds for a task that is meaningful to the student, an in-depth review of an area of computer application or social impact, or the development of new materials for future versions of this course. COURSE SYLLABUSThere are five somewhat overlapping streams of course content -Creation, Design, Use, Impact, and Projects.Creation -Programming and Software Concepts comprises roughly 10 of the 40 lectures in the course. Here we introduce basic principles of programming in LOGO, with emphasis on the variety of data types with which we can transact in LOGO, procedures, recursion, names and things, and buttons, sliders, and text boxes for building interactive applications in Microworlds. We talk about algorithms, feedback and control, bugs and debugging, and complexity. Major examples include Karel the Robot, the game of Nim, and the Towers of Hanoi.--

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A Principled Taxonomy of Software Visualization

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