Software Visualization, 2007.pdf

Software Visualization

Stephan Diehl

Software

Visualization

Visualizing the Structure, Behaviour,

and Evolution of Software

With 124 Figures, including 75 in Colour, and 5 Tables

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Author

Stephan Diehl

Universität Trier

Fachbereich Informatik

54286 Trier, Germany

diehl@uni-trier.de

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007923067

ACM Computing Classiﬁcation (1998): D.2, I.3.8, J.6

ISBN 978-3-540-46504-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

Software systems are designed, implemented, tested, debugged, analyzed, and

maintained by many changing developers. All these tasks can be facilitated

by visualization.

In this book we give an overview of the various areas of software visu-

alization, the art and science of generating visual representations of various

aspects of software and its development process.

In contrast to visual programming and diagramming for software design,

software visualization is not so much concerned with the construction, but

with the analysis of programs and their development process.

So far, there exist only anthologies and proceedings about software visu-

alization. This book is the ﬁrst textbook on software visualization. Although

written mostly for graduate students, the book is also a valuable resource for

researchers as it provides a broad and systematic overview of the area with

many pointers to literature and systems for further study.

As the ﬁeld of software visualization is growing fast, the book is not meant

to be comprehensive, but we have attempted to select seminal work as well

as promising new approaches to illustrate some emerging principles in the

ﬁeld. Each chapter is followed by a list of exercises including both pen&paper

exercises, as well as programming tasks.

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers who are new to

the ﬁeld of software visualization. The book is meant to be read from end to

end, though some readers may want to skip some of the more formal sections.

Ideally, after reading the book, the reader will be able to

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identify recurring concepts in various areas of software visualization;

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understand the purpose of various visualization techniques;

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appreciate the use of visualization in software engineering.

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