Title :
Visuocode: A software development environment that supports spatial navigation and composition
Author :
Bradley, Daniel R. ; Hayes, Ian J.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Abstract :
Navigating through software is an integral part of software development. Studies have identified that during navigation programmers often become disoriented and lose task awareness. To mitigate this, the method-flow visualisation technique displays traversed methods in adjacent editor columns. This paper presents the Visuocode software development environment, which is an implementation of method-flow that, in addition to navigation, supports program composition.
Keywords :
data visualisation; software engineering; Visuocode; adjacent editor column; flow visualisation technique; software development; spatial composition; spatial navigation; Context; Educational institutions; Maintenance engineering; Navigation; Programming; Software; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Software Visualization (VISSOFT), 2013 First IEEE Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
Eindhoven
DOI :
10.1109/VISSOFT.2013.6650533
