SoftArchViz: An Automated Approach to Visualizing Software Architectures

摘要

This paper presents a programmatic mechanism for visualizing large software architectures using Multi-Dimensional Scaling. We begin with a short survey of standard representations of software architecture used in the industry and then describe how our software visualization technique was applied to Network Appliance Data ONTAP 7G (storage server operating system). We show how our visualization tool known as SoftArchViz can be used to study different architectural views that represent different attributes of the software components. Finally we discuss potential future work to enhance the capabilities of SoftArchViz and the application of these enhancements to study new aspects of software architecture.