Software visualisations of one form or another appear in numerous software maintenance tools. Visualisation is arguably one of the most profitable means of communicating information to a user. As software systems become larger and more complex we find ourselves in greater need for techniques to visualise such large information structures. This paper concentrates on visualising software systems ...

comers. Much relevant knowledge is only available at data providers and software vendors level which make it difficult to get an independent advice. On the other hand, the demand is not always clear which makes it hard for data providers and software vendors to offer demand-oriented products and services. Despite the slow progress of 3D in practice, it is clear that 3D applications are importan...

In this paper, we describe a canonical program representation, Semantic Program Graphs (SPGs), and we show how SPGs can act as the foundation for multiparadigm software develop ment environments. Using SPGs as the basis for program representation allows developers to see different views of programs that correspond to different ways of thinking about them, and it allows editors to be created so ...

Professional Societies in IT and accreditation bodies of Engineering and Computer Science may be in dispute while international recognition of professionals is necessary. Can a possibly independent accreditation body aligned with proposed IFIP Standard on IT Professionalism, help Software Engineering Profession? We consider accreditation of educational programs to be an obstacle to the creation...

1998 CR Categories: D.1.5 [Programming Techniques] Applicative (Functional) Programming; D.2.1 [Software Engineering] Requirements/Specificationslanguages; D.2.4 [Software Engineering] Software/Program Verificationclass invariants, formal methods, programming by contract; D.3.3 [Software Engineering] Language Constructs and Featuresclasses and objects, frameworks; F.3.1 [Logics and Meanings ...