Track: Documenting Design and Architecture

Abstract: Despite modern IDEs such as Eclipse, which support the manipulation of code at a higher level of abstraction, in the eyes of many a developer at the end of the day programming is equivalent to "writing source code". In this presentation I'll try to dispel this notion by presenting the principles of software visualization and illustrating some of the bleeding edge research that is being performed in the domain. You will learn that not only can software visualization lead to beautiful pictures of software systems, it may also be the basis of next-generation IDEs.

Level: Absolute, but open minded, beginners

Keywords: Software visualization