Software visualization (SV) allows us to visualize different aspects and artifacts related to
software, thus helping engineers understanding its underlying design and functionalities in a …

When working on a program, developers traditionally have to simulate the behavior of the
abstract code in their heads until they can execute the application. Live programming aims …

Good code quality is a prerequisite for efficiently developing maintainable software. In this
paper, we present a novel approach to generate exploranative (explanatory and …

The maintenance of large, legacy software often results in higher development time and cost
due to increasing size and complexity of the codebase and its documentation, their …

To augment source code with high-level metadata with the intent to facilitate program
comprehension, a programmer can use annotations. There are several types of annotations …

Domain-specific debugging visualizations try to provide a view of a runtime object tailored to
a specific domain and highlighting its important properties. The research in this area has …

Context: Software visualization has the potential to support specialized stakeholders to
understand the software architecture (SA) evolution. To the best of our knowledge, there is …