Visual Exploration of Combined Architectural and Metric Information

Author

Termeer, Maurice ; Lange, Christian F J ; Telea, Alexandru ; Chaudron, Michel R V

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Tech. Univ. Eindhoven

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0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We present MetricView, a software visualization and exploration tool that combines traditional UML diagram visualization with metric visualization in an effective way. MetricView is very easy and natural to use for software architects and developers yet offers a powerful set of mechanisms that allow fine customization of the visualizations for getting specific insights. We discuss several visual and architectural design choices which turned out to be important in the construction of MetricView, and illustrate our approach with several results using real-life datasets

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; program visualisation; software architecture; MetricView; UML diagram visualization; architectural design; architectural information; exploration tool; metric information; metric visualization; software visualization; visual design; visual exploration; Computer architecture; Computer science; Data visualization; Guidelines; Instruments; Software design; Software metrics; Software systems; Software tools; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis, 2005. VISSOFT 2005. 3rd IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9540-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISSOF.2005.1684298

Filename

1684298