Visualizing Software Structures through Enhanced Interactive Sunburst Layout

Abstract

Visualizing large software system structure in compact representations would help software architects and analysts in understanding the overall software structure accurately and efficiently. Space-filling techniques (e.g., Sunburst or Tree-map) are nowadays used for producing compact representations of large hierarchical data. In this paper, we use the Sunburst layout with some enhancements to show the overall software system structure and the inside details in a compact visual form, in order to make it more readable for software architects and analysts. We also report some initial findings of the preliminary conducted evaluation study.