Context: Software visualizations can help developers to analyze multiple aspects of complex
software systems, but their effectiveness is often uncertain due to the lack of evaluation …

Context: Over the past decades, researchers proposed numerous approaches to visualize
source code. A popular one is CodeCity, an interactive 3D software visualization …

Background: Researchers have been exploring 3D representations for visualizing software.
Among these representations, one of the most popular is the city metaphor, which …

Several usability issues (ie, navigation, occlusion, selection, and text readability) affect the
few 3D visualizations proposed to support developers on software engineering tasks. We …

Requirement Engineering (RE) is a Software Engineering (SE) process of defining,
documenting, and maintaining the requirements from a problem. It is one of the most …

Re-architecting a software system requires significant preparation, eg, to scope and design
new modules with their boundaries and constituent classes. When planning an intended …

Software architecture is abstract and intangible. Tools for visualizing software architecture
can help to comprehend the implemented architecture but they need an effective and …

Exploring an unfamiliar large-scale software system is challenging, especially when based
solely on source code. While software visualizations help in gaining an overview of a …

Context: Code annotations is a widely used feature in Java systems to configure custom
metadata on programming elements. Their increasing presence creates the need for …

We propose the tool IslandViz for exploring modular software systems in virtual reality. We
use an island metaphor, which represents every module as a distinct island. The resulting …