@InProceedings {IEEE-IWPC-2002:Jahnke-Muller-Walenstein-, Author = "Jens H. Jahnke and Hausi A. M{\"u}ller and Andrew Walenstein and Nikolai Mansurov and Kenny Wong", Title = "Fused Data-Centric Visualizations for Software Evolution Environments", BookTitle = "Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC'02)", ConfDate = "Jun 27--29", Location = "Paris", Pages = "187--196", Publisher = "IEEE Computer Society Press", Abstract = "During software evolution, several different facets of the system need to be related to one another at multiple levels of abstraction. Current software evolution tools have limited capabilities for effectively visualizing and evolving multiple system facets in an integrated manner. Many tools provide methods for tracking and relating different levels of abstraction within a single facet. However it is less well understood how to represent and understand relationships between and among different abstraction hierarchies, that is, for inter-hierarchy relations. Often these are represented and explored independently, making them difficult to relate to one another. As a result, engineers are likely to have difficulty understanding how the various facets of a system relate and interact. We describe preliminary results of a collaborative research project between industry and academia to enhance the inter-hierarchy visualization capabilities of an existing software evolution environment called ``KLOCwork Suite''. Specifically, we describe our efforts to add a ``fused'' visualization based on Story Board Diagrams. This visualization ``integrates'' or ``fuses'' facets of architecture, behavior, and data. We describe how these diagrams bridge currently isolated visualizations of system information, and argue how they can help drive architecture excavation tasks.", }