Using software visualisation to enhance online component markets

  • Authors:
  • Stuart Marshall;Robert Biddle;James Noble

  • Affiliations:
  • Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand;Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand;Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • APVis '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Australasian symposium on Information Visualisation - Volume 35
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Online component markets can be costly for consumers to use, in terms of the time and effort spent understanding the components on offer. This cost of understanding will deter consumers from reusing the available components. Software visualisations derived from the components' run-time behaviour can lessen the cost of understanding. We have developed a prototype tool called Spider for providing this functionality to producers and consumers. We discuss some of the issues involved, along with our experiences in implementing the prototype.