Towards Collaborative and Dynamic Software Visualization in VR

Jung F, Dashuber V, Philippsen M (2020)

Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Future Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2020

Publisher: SciTePress

Edited Volumes: Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP 2020)

City/Town: Portugal

Pages Range: 149 - 156

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: IVAPP

Event location: Valletta MT

ISBN: 978-989-758-402-2

URI: http://www.ivapp.visigrapp.org/

DOI: 10.5220/0008945201490156

Open Access Link: https://www.scitepress.org/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=cS7ug5wCUH0=&t=1

Abstract

To improve comprehension and maintenance of distributed software systems, some software visualization tools already bundle relevant information in a graphical way, but they either focus on the static structures and dependencies, or on tracing information. Our novel visual representation lifts the software city metaphor into VR and jointly addresses both static and dynamic behavioral aspects, such as call traces of microservice based systems. Users can navigate both the traces in the time domain and the static structure in the spatial domain. They can also collaborate with other developers. We argue that our 3D visualization provides the engineer with a better grasp on relevant information. With a controlled experiment we evaluated its user acceptance.

Authors with CRIS profile

Florian Jung Lehrstuhl für Informatik 2 (Programmiersysteme) Veronika Dashuber Lehrstuhl für Informatik 2 (Programmiersysteme) Michael Philippsen Lehrstuhl für Informatik 2 (Programmiersysteme)

Related research project(s)

Cooperative Exploration and Analysis of Software in a Virtual/Augmented Reality Appliance (Holoware) Kooperative Exploration und Analyse von Software in einer Virtual/Augmented Reality Appliance Sept. 1, 2018 - Dec. 31, 2022

How to cite

APA:

Jung, F., Dashuber, V., & Philippsen, M. (2020). Towards Collaborative and Dynamic Software Visualization in VR. In Andreas Kerren, Christophe Hurter, Jose Braz (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: IVAPP (pp. 149 - 156). Valletta, MT: Portugal: SciTePress.

MLA:

Jung, Florian, Veronika Dashuber, and Michael Philippsen. "Towards Collaborative and Dynamic Software Visualization in VR." Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP 2020), Valletta Ed. Andreas Kerren, Christophe Hurter, Jose Braz, Portugal: SciTePress, 2020. 149 - 156.

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