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Evaluation of Visual structure for Industrial size Software Product Line Architecture

Authors:
Abeer Khalid
Salma Imtiaz

Keywords: software product line architecture; information visualization; visual structure

Abstract:
Information visualization helps in facilitating comprehension of conceptual information. Information visualization plays a powerful role in software product line architecture. Much work has been done for variability representation, but little consideration has been given to scalability, visualization of traceability links, evolution of variance, etc. There is a greater need for a suitable visual structure that can illustrate “industrial sized” software product line architecture in managing these highlighted factors. There is also a need to perform an evaluation of the visual structures used for visualization of product line architecture, finding out their suitability for visualization of a large and complex software product lines. Our results show that hyperbolic trees are best suited for visualization of product line architecture due to their multiple attributes such as: Exponential growth, scalability, interaction without hindering the structure and clearer (un-complex) perception.

Pages: 152 to 157

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: July 21, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4529

ISBN: 978-1-61208-283-7

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 21, 2013 to July 26, 2013