Software Visualization: From Theory to Practice

✍ Scribed by Kang Zhang, Ke-Bing Zhang (auth.), Kang Zhang (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 459
• Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 734
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Software Visualization: From Theory to Practice was initially selected as a special volume for "The Annals of Software Engineering (ANSE) Journal", which has been discontinued. This special edited volume, is the first to discuss software visualization in the perspective of software engineering. It is a collection of 14 chapters on software visualization, covering the topics from theory to practical systems. The chapters are divided into four Parts: Visual Formalisms, HumanFactors, Architectural Visualization, and Visualization in Practice. They cover a comprehensive range of software visualization topics, including
*Visual programming theory and techniques for rapid software prototyping and graph visualization, including distributed programming;
*Visual formalisms such as Flowchart, Event Graph, and Process Communication Graph;
*Graph-oriented distributed programming;
*Program visualization for software understanding, testing/debugging and maintenance;
*Object-oriented re-design based on legacy procedural software;
*Cognitive models for designing software exploration tools;
*Human comprehensibility of visual modeling diagrams in UML;
*UML extended with pattern compositions for software reuse;
*Visualization of software architecture and Web architecture for better understanding;
*Visual programming and program visualization for music synthesizers;
*Drawing diagrams nicely using clustering techniques for software engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Graph Grammars for Visual Programming....Pages 3-27
Visualizing Program Behavior with the Event Graph....Pages 29-57
Flowchart Components for Program Visualization....Pages 59-75
A Formalism for Graph-Oriented Distributed Programming....Pages 77-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-112
Designing a Software Exploration Tool Using a Cognitive Framework....Pages 113-147
UML Class Diagrams: An Empirical Study of Comprehension....Pages 149-178
Analysis of Visual Languages for Parallel Programming....Pages 179-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-218
A Visual Architectural Approach to Maintaining Web Applications....Pages 219-242
Understanding Architecture through Structure and Behavior Visualization....Pages 243-286
Design Pattern Compositions in UML....Pages 287-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-310
The Bloom Software Visualziation System....Pages 311-357
Visual Program Visualization....Pages 359-388
Use of Visualization to Aid Object-Oriented Redesign....Pages 389-412
Effective Graph Visualization Via Node Grouping....Pages 413-437
Back Matter....Pages 439-442

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Computer Graphics; Multimedia Information Systems