Navigating Software Architectures with Constant Visual Complexity

Authors:
Wanchun Li;Peter Eades;Seok-Hee Hong
Affiliations:
University of Sydney;University of Sydney;University of Sydney
Venue:
VLHCC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Visualizing software architecture faces the challenges of both data complexity and visual complexity. This paper presents an approach for visualizing software architecture, which reduces data complexity using the clustered graph model and navigates pictures of clustered graphs with constant visual complexity. A graph drawing algorithm is introduced to generate visualizations of clustered graphs. A semantic fisheye view of a clustered graph is proposed for conserving constant visual complexity. Animation is used to present smooth transition of visualizations. A case study is investigated to navigate the architecture of the Compiler c488.