Using software visualisation to enhance online component markets
Stuart Marshall, Robert Biddle, James Noble · 2004
Online component markets can be costly for consumers to use, in terms of the time and e#ort spent understanding the components on o#er. This cost of understanding will deter consumers from reusing the available components. Software visualisations derived from the components' run-time behaviour can lessen the cost of understanding. We have developed a prototype tool called Spider for providing this functionality to producers and consumers. We discuss some of the issues involved, along with our experiences in implementing the prototype.