Visualising software as a particle system

Scarle, Simon; Walkinshaw, Neil

doi:10.1109/vissoft.2015.7332416

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“…Twenty of the listed tools that focus on the structure of software systems are displayed using the standard computer screen. Only three use immersive virtual reality: PhysVis [76], in which users visualize software metrics shown as a physical particle system, ExplorViz [77], in which developers obtain an overview of the architecture of a system represented as a city, and CityVR [78], which adds interactions and visualization of software metrics and smells.…”

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VISON: An Ontology-Based Approach for Software Visualization Tool Discoverability

Merino

Kozlova

Nierstrasz

et al. 2019

2019 Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)

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Although many tools have been presented in the research literature of software visualization, there is little evidence of their adoption. To choose a suitable visualization tool, practitioners need to analyze various characteristics of tools such as their supported software concerns and level of maturity. Indeed, some tools can be prototypes for which the lifespan is expected to be short, whereas others can be fairly mature products that are maintained for a longer time. Although such characteristics are often described in papers, we conjecture that practitioners willing to adopt software visualizations require additional support to discover suitable visualization tools. In this paper, we elaborate on our efforts to provide such support. To this end, we systematically analyzed research papers in the literature of software visualization and curated a catalog of 70 available tools that employ various visualization techniques to support the analysis of multiple software concerns. We further encapsulate these characteristics in an ontology. VISON, our software visualization ontology, captures these semantics as concepts and relationships. We report on early results of usage scenarios that demonstrate how the ontology can support (i) developers to find suitable tools for particular development concerns, and (ii) researchers who propose new software visualization tools to identify a baseline tool for a controlled experiment. arXiv:1908.04090v1 [cs.SE] 12 Aug 2019Step 2. Consider reusing existing ontologies. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first ontology of software visualizations.Step 3. Enumerate important terms in the ontology. We include the characteristics of software visualization and their evaluations, as well as the classifications presented in previous studies [6], [7].

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