A Framework for Visualizing Model-Driven Software Evolution

Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of methods for graphically representing different aspects of methods of software, including its structure, its execution and its evolution. Creating visualizations helps the user to better understand complex phenomena. It is also found by the software engineering community that visualization is essential and important but not a critical activity. In order to visualize the evolution of the models in model-driven software evolution (MoDSE), this paper derives and constructs a framework, with key areas (views) and key features, for the assessment of MoDSE process and addresses a number of stakeholder concerns. The framework is derived by the application of the goal question metric paradigm. The application of the framework is determined by considering the different roles of the stakeholders and their concerns. The framework is applied to state how each stakeholder might satisfy their concerns and gain knowledge about the models during evolution.