Software visualization today - Systematic literature review

Anna-Liisa Mattila; Petri Ihantola; Terhi Kilamo; Antti Luoto; Mikko Nurminen; Heli Väätäjä

doi:10.1145/2994310.2994327

Software visualization today - Systematic literature review

Anna-Liisa Mattila, Petri Ihantola, Terhi Kilamo, Antti Luoto, Mikko Nurminen, Heli Väätäjä

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Abstract

Software visualization means visualizing various aspects and artifacts related to software. By this definition a wide range of different software engineering aspects from program comprehension to understanding software process and usage are covered. This paper presents the results of systematic literature review spanning six years of software visualization literature. The main result shows that the most studied topics in the past six years are related to software structure, behavior and evolution. Software process and usage are addressed only in few studies. In the future studying the adoption of software visualization tools in industry context would be beneficial.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	AcademicMindtrek 2016 - Proceedings of the 20th International Academic Mindtrek Conference
Publisher	ACM
Pages	262-271
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450343671
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2994310.2994327
Publication status	Published - 17 Oct 2016
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	Mindtrek Conference - Duration: 1 Jan 1900 → …

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Conference	Mindtrek Conference
Period	1/01/00 → …

Keywords

Human-centered computing
Software visualization
Systematic literature review

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Publication forum level 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Software
Computer Science Applications

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