INTERACTIVE COMPONENT VISUALIZATION - Visual Representation of Component-based Applications using the ENT Meta-model

Jaroslav Šnajberk, Přemek Brada

2011

Abstract

UML is considered to be a universal solution for diagramming any application, but UML also has its shortcomings. It needs several diagrams to describe one problem, it cannot create different views on one diagram and it is not interactive. This leads to hours spent drawing the same thing from different views, any change has to be applied several times and the author of a UML diagram has to balance between good readability and providing a sufficient amount of information. In particular, the UML component diagram has insufficient expressive power to capture all the facts of even today’s component models and architectures. In this paper, we propose a visualization aimed at modular and composed architecture that is content-aware, so it can present the model of component-based architecture in different ways, depending on user needs. By default, it presents minimum information to reduce cognitive load and keep the diagrams comprehensible, while making the additional information available when the user needs it. This paper thus suggests a possible substitute for UML in the domain of component-based applications.

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Šnajberk J. and Brada P. (2011). INTERACTIVE COMPONENT VISUALIZATION - Visual Representation of Component-based Applications using the ENT Meta-model . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8425-57-7, pages 218-225. DOI: 10.5220/0003436902180225


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@conference{enase11,
author={Jaroslav Šnajberk and Přemek Brada},
title={INTERACTIVE COMPONENT VISUALIZATION - Visual Representation of Component-based Applications using the ENT Meta-model},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2011},
pages={218-225},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003436902180225},
isbn={978-989-8425-57-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - INTERACTIVE COMPONENT VISUALIZATION - Visual Representation of Component-based Applications using the ENT Meta-model
SN - 978-989-8425-57-7
AU - Šnajberk J.
AU - Brada P.
PY - 2011
SP - 218
EP - 225
DO - 10.5220/0003436902180225