Approaches to supporting software visual notation exchange

Author

Stoeckle, Hermann ; Grundy, John ; Hosking, John

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Auckland Univ., New Zealand

fYear

2003

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

66

Abstract

A wide range of software tools provide software engineers with different views (static and dynamic) of software systems. Much work has focused on software information model exchange. However, most software tools lack support for exchange of information about visualisation notations (both definitions of notations and instances of them). Some basic converters have been developed to support the exchange of notation information between software tools but almost all are custom-built to support specific notations and difficult to maintain. We describe the development of several notation exchange converters for tools supporting software architecture notations. This leads to a unified converter generator framework for notation exchange.

Keywords

program visualisation; software architecture; notation exchange converters; software architecture; software engineering; software information model exchange; software tools; software visual notation exchange; Computer aided software engineering; Computer architecture; Computer science; Runtime; Shape; Software architecture; Software engineering; Software tools; Virtual reality; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8225-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HCC.2003.1260204

Filename

1260204