A Framework for Software Architecture Visualisation Assessment
Keith Brian Gallagher, Andrew O. Hatch, Malcolm Munro · 2005
In order to assess software architecture visualisation strategies, we qualitatively characterize then construct an assessment framework with 7 key areas and 31 features. The framework is used for evaluation and comparison of various strategies from multiple stakeholder perspectives. Six existing software architecture visualisation tools and a seventh research tool were evaluated. All tools exhibited shortcomings when evaluated in the framework