Software Visualisation

"In the past decade, high quality interfaces have become standard in a growing number of areas such as games and CD-ROM-based encyclopedias. Yet the overwhelming majority of programmers edit their code using a single font within a single window and view code execution via the hand insertion of print statements. Software Visualization (SV) redresses this imbalance by using typography, graphics, and animation techniques to show program code, data, and control flow." (Software Visualization, Stasko et .al, MIT Press)

People

• CraigAnslow - PhD Student
• JamesNoble - Faculty
• StuartMarshall - Faculty
• RobertBiddle - Adjunct Faculty

Projects

• Visualisation Architecture for REuse
• Evaluating X3D For Use in Software Visualisation

Recent Publications

• Web Software Visualization Using Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics. Craig Anslow, James Noble, Stuart Marshall, and Robert Biddle. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis) (Poster), Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany, 2008.
• Visualizing the Computation Tree of the Tutte Polynomial. Bennett Thompson, David J. Pearce, Gary Haggard, and Craig Anslow. in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis) (Poster), Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany, 2008.
• Towards End-User Web Software Visualization. Craig Anslow, James Noble, Stuart Marshall, and Ewan Tempero. To Appear in the Proceedings of the Graduate Consortium at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VLHCC), Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany, 2008.
• X3D Web Software Visualization in Action!. Craig Anslow, James Noble, Stuart Marshall, and Robert Biddle. In the Companion of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) (Onward! Film), Montreal, Canada, 2007.
• X3D Software Visualization. Craig Anslow, Stuart Marshall, James Noble, and Robert Biddle. In the Proceedings of the New Zealand Computer Science Students Research Conference, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2007.
• XML Database Support for Program Trace Visualisation. Craig Anslow, Stuart Marshall, Robert Biddle, James Noble, and Kirk Jackson. In the Proceedings of the Australasian Symposium on Information Visualisation (INVIS), Christchurch, New Zealand, 2004.
• Aspects to Visualising Reusable Components. Stuart Marshall, Kirk Jackson, Craig Anslow and Robert Biddle. In the Proceedings of the Australasian Symposium on Information Visualisation (INVIS), Adelaide, Australia, 2003.

Theses

• Evaluating Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics For Use in Software Visualisation - CraigAnslow MSc Thesis 2008
• TestDrivingReusableComponents - StuartMarshall PhD 2006
• An Architecture for Behaviour-based Component Retrieval - AshleySchroder BSc Honours 2005
• Evaluating Scalable Vector Graphics for use in Software Visualisation - MattDuignan MSc 2003
• XML Database Support for Program Trace Visualisation - CraigAnslow BSc Honours 2002
• InspectJ: Using AspectJ for Visualisation - RillaKhaled BSc Honours 2002
• Extracting Software Re-use Information for Visualisation Tools - MikeMcGavin BSc Honours 2001
• Understanding Frameworks through Visualisation - KirkJackson BSc Honours 2000
• Understanding code for reuse - StuartMarshall MSc 1999
• A Program Visualisation Tool for Emaphsising the Dynamic Nature of Reusability - John Miller-Williams 1998
• Abstract Program Visualisation - JamesNoble PhD 1997