DiffArchViz: A tool to visualize correspondence between multiple representations of a software architecture

VISSOFT 2007 - Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 121-128

  Sawant, Amit P ^a   Bali, Naveen ^b  

^a North Carolina State University

^b Network Appliance Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Architecture visualization; Information visualization; Perception; Software architecture; Software performance visualization; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL VIEWS; ATTRIBUTE VALUES; DYNAMIC SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; HARDWARE PLATFORMS; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; INTERNATIONAL (CO); MULTI DIMENSIONAL SCALING (MDS); MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES; MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS; NETWORK APPLIANCES; RUN TIME; SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; SOURCE CODING; SPATIAL POSITIONING; STORAGE SERVERS; TEXTURE PROPERTIES; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; STORAGE (MATERIALS); VISUALIZATION;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 46449127144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VISSOF.2007.4290710     Document Type: Conference Paper

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