Using a Task-Oriented Framework to Characterize Visualization Approaches

Visualization approaches support stakeholders in a variety of tasks. However, they are spread in the literature and their information is usually not clearly organized, classified and categorized, which makes them hard to be found and used in practice. This paper presents the use of a task-oriented framework in the context of a characterization study of visualizations that provide support for software reuse tasks. Such framework was extended in order to capture more detailed information that may be useful for assessing the suitability of a particular visualization. Besides enabling a better organization of the findings, the use of the extended framework allows to identify aspects that lack more support, indicating opportunities for researchers on software reuse and software visualization.