Development of Program Visualization Systems
Aulikki Hyrskykari · 1999
The last decade has been a very active period of designing systems for program visualization. Without proper means for describing and evaluating both existing and new systems further develoment may be delayed. Recently, several researchers have been working for creating taxonomies for program visualization systems. During the active period of system development benefits of visualization were often praised without criticism, and scientific references were rarely presented. What do we really know about usefulness of program visualization? We first present the state of the work with the terminology and taxonomy in the dicipline. Moreover, we review the existing empirical studies on the benefits of graphical presentation of programs. We also give a reference list to the existing program visualization systems.