The document discusses an ontology-based meta-visualization aimed at helping developers find suitable software visualization tools to address development questions. It highlights various visualization techniques and tools presented in multiple conferences, including best paper awards. Key examples include 'metavis' for actionable visualization and 'communityexplorer' for visualizing collaboration networks.

1. Leonel Merino
SCG, University of Bern
An Ontology Based Meta-Visualization
for Recommending Suitable
Software Visualization
merino@inf.unibe.ch @leonel_merinohttp://scg.unibe.ch/staff/merino

2. Research Question
How can developers find suitable
visualization to support questions that arise
during development ?
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3. Towards Actionable Visualization in Software
Development. VISSOFT’16
L.Merino,M.Ghafari,O.Nierstrasz, “Towards Actionable Visualization in Software Development,”in
VISSOFT’16: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization. IEEE, 2016, to
Appear. [Online]. Available: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Meri16a.pdf (Best paper award)
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4. Extracted Data
e.g., lviz
e.g., maintenance
e.g., wall display
e.g., dense pixel
e.g., QA Engineer
e.g., source code
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5. e.g., how are clones distributed in system
structure?
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6. e.g., refactoringe.g., refactoring
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7. MetaVis: Exploring Actionable Visualization.
VISSOFT’16
e.g.
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L.Merino,M.Ghafari,O.Nierstrasz,A.Bergel,andJ.Kubelka,“Metavis:Exploring Actionable Visualization,”in
VISSOFT’16: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization. IEEE, 2016, to
Appear. [Online]. Available: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Meri16c.pdf
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8. e.g., how various metrics relate in a software
product family?
Example
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9. Explora: A visualization Tool for Metric Analysis on
Software Corpora. VISSOFT’15
L. Merino, M. Lungu, and O. Nierstrasz, “Explora: A visualisation tool for metric analysis of software
corpora,” in VISSOFT’15: Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization.
IEEE, 2015, pp. 195–199. [Online]. Available: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Meri15b.pdf
Polygrid
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12. e.g., who is who?
Example
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13. CommunityExplorer: A Framework for Visualizing
Collaboration Networks. IWST’16
L. Merino, D. Seliner, M. Ghafari, and O. Nierstrasz, “CommunityExplorer: A framework for visualizing
collaboration networks,” in Proceedings of International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST 2016),
2016, to Appear. [Online]. Available: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Meri16b.pdf
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15. Systematic Literature Review
L.Merino,M.Ghafari,O.Nierstrasz, “Towards Actionable Visualization in Software Development,”in VISSOFT’16: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Working
Conference on Software Visualization. IEEE, 2016, to Appear. [Online]. Available: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Meri16c.pdf (Best paper award)
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16. MetaVis: Improving visualization and adding quality
metrics to the ontology.
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17. Technique: How to support hierarchy depth
analysis of extrema values in Treemaps?
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18. Technique: How support hierarchy depth analysis
in Treemaps?
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20. Summary
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merino@inf.unibe.ch @leonel_merinohttp://scg.unibe.ch/staff/merino