EVALUATING COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE VISUALIZATION TOOLS - Criteria and Case Study

Lukas Holy, Jaroslav Snajberk, Premek Brada

2012

Abstract

There are many software architecture modeling tools and their use is very common in practice. But a closer look reveals that in the ever more important area of component-based architectures, system architects or component assemblers are constrained by the lack of good model representations. On one hand, a generic representation like UML provides insufficient support for component-specific needs, on the other hand, tools focused on component development sometimes force the user to learn new visual syntax specific for the component model. Advanced features offered by the tools on top of basic architecture visualization are often limited. In this paper we propose a set of criteria for the evaluation of tools for component architecture visualization, considering the needs of both architectural modeling and analytical tasks. These criteria are thoroughly discussed and their use is shown on a case study which evaluates a current state of the art tool.

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Holy L., Snajberk J. and Brada P. (2012). EVALUATING COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE VISUALIZATION TOOLS - Criteria and Case Study . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-02-0, pages 737-742. DOI: 10.5220/0003861607370742


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@conference{ivapp12,
author={Lukas Holy and Jaroslav Snajberk and Premek Brada},
title={EVALUATING COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE VISUALIZATION TOOLS - Criteria and Case Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={737-742},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003861607370742},
isbn={978-989-8565-02-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - EVALUATING COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE VISUALIZATION TOOLS - Criteria and Case Study
SN - 978-989-8565-02-0
AU - Holy L.
AU - Snajberk J.
AU - Brada P.
PY - 2012
SP - 737
EP - 742
DO - 10.5220/0003861607370742