Call for Papers

With the steady growth of software projects, along with the vast processing power of computers, new research has been developed to allow a better understanding of the structure, behavior and evolution of software process and product. This research makes use of visualization tools and techniques applied in the context of software, encouraging the rise of the software visualization field.

Software visualization uses visual abstractions to represent various properties of software systems, in order to reveal patterns and behaviors that otherwise would remain hidden. For this reason, the design and use of visual resources are very important for software engineering.

It is noteworthy that software visualization is an area of direct or indirect interest of to a large part of the software community. Some software engineering areas, such as testing, configuration management, architecture, development environments, among others, are potential users of techniques for visualizing software.

Software visualization is a specialization of information visualization. The synergy with the information visualization community is a successful strategy for using resources already established in the latter. For this reason, issues related to information visualization are also included in the workshop topics of interest. Topics of Interest

WBVS topics of interest include, amongst others:

• Source Code Visualization
• Dynamic Software Visualization
• Software Evolution Visualization
• Visualization of Software Engineering Activities (e.g., Requirements Engineering, Tests, Maintenance etc.)
• Visualization of Workflow and Business Processes
• Software Visualization in Development Environments
• Visualization related to Software Development Process
• Database Visualization
• Network Flow Visualization
• 3D Software Visualization