Application of focus + context to UML

Authors:
Benjamin Musial;Timothy Jacobs
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, Ohio;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, Ohio
Venue:
APVis '03 Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific symposium on Information visualisation - Volume 24
Year:
2003

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Abstract

UML class diagrams of complex software systems are frequently very large, making it difficult to gain a detailed understanding of the underlying software components within the context of the overall software system. To overcome this limitation, we apply focus + context visualization techniques to an interactive UML browser. We display software components at varying levels of detail according to a dynamic degree of interest function. We then lay out the diagram components to maximize space efficiency while emphasizing the relationships between components. Preliminary results of our work are presented here.