XVIZIT: Visualizing cognitive units in spreadsheets

Hodnigg, Karin; Pinzger, Martin

doi:10.1109/vissoft.2015.7332439

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“…It supports the visualization of transition systems that model the behavior of a software. SIFEI [52] and xViZiT [53] focus on the visualization of spreadsheets, whereas regVis [54] deals with the visualization of assembler control-flow based on regular expressions. Method Execution Reports [55] embed word-size graphics in reports of method executions.…”

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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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