Software Visualization

Experts point out that software visualization typically uses metric data about software, as well as the actual source code, to showcase how code works through various kinds of mapping and presentation. Software visualization can be used for quality control in software development or, again, to try to reverse-engineer code.

Various tools have been built for software visualization. For instance, AgileJ StructureViews helps with software visualization for Java, with features including filtering tools for distinguishing Java elements, including classes, fields and methods, as well as batching technology. Another prominent type of software visualization tool is Microsoft Visual Studio. Visual Studio works with multiple programming languages and includes a lot of software visualization functionality, as well as top-level interface design, that helps developers to build applications for Windows operating systems. In general, Visual Studio is a visual interface to support object-oriented programming. It not only helps individuals and teams to create applications from scratch, but it also does the sort of things that software visualization is intended to help with; by creating Windows-based mapping and visual design, it shows relationships between code modules as part of a greater structural approach to coding that is inherently visual and distributed in nature.