SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE VISUALISATION
CLAIRE KNIGHT · 2002
If the entire of what many consider to be the software visualisation field is reviewed, then this article would be much larger in size and also consist mainly of variations on the nodes and arcs theme. Because the use of the third dimension for system and software visualisation is emerging as a viable alternative for the representation of complex artefacts then it was considered much better to focus on this form of software visualisation. The previous techniques had various identified shortcomings and the space and freedom afforded by the extra dimension has the potential to be usefully employed to overcome some of these problems. Software visualisation can be seen as a specialised subset of information visualisation. This is because information visualisation is the process of creating a graphical representation of abstract, generally non-numerical, data. This is exactly what is required when trying to visualise software. The term software visualisation has many ...