Issue No.06 - November/December (2010 vol.27)
Alexandru Telea , University of Groningen, Groningen
Lucian Voinea , SolidSource BV, Eindhoven
Hans Sassenburg , SE-CURE, Lenk
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2010.115
Many visualization tools offer software professionals insights to large-scale system architectures. However, despite recent advances in the software-visualization field and significant investments in constructing effective tools, few of these tools have a prominent effect on the software industry. The authors analyze the possible causes of this state of affairs, based on their industry experience. They argue for framing visualization tool adoption in a lean development setting as a value-added versus waste proposition. They examine this model for three types of potential visualization stakeholders: technical users, project managers, and consultants. For each stakeholder type, they observe different values and waste definitions and derive potential adoption guidelines for visualization tools. The Web extra is an erratum that contains a correction to Figure 1's Rigi URL.
software engineering, software tools, visualization
Alexandru Telea, Lucian Voinea, Hans Sassenburg, "Visual Tools for Software Architecture Understanding: A Stakeholder Perspective", IEEE Software, vol.27, no. 6, pp. 46-53, November/December 2010, doi:10.1109/MS.2010.115