Context Software systems today often interoperate with each other, thus forming a system of
systems (SoS). Due to the scale, complexity, and heterogeneity of SoS, determining …

Software visualizations, such as the software city metaphor, are usually displayed on 2D
screens and controlled by means of a mouse and thus often do not take advantage of more …

Database management systems (or DBMSs) have been around for decades, and yet are still
difficult to use, particularly when trying to identify and fix errors in user programs (or queries) …

Context: The number of software applications deployed in organizations is constantly
increasing. Those applications–often several hundreds–form large software landscapes …

Microservice architectures provide small services that may be deployed and scaled
independently of each other, and may employ different middleware stacks for their …

Application-level monitoring and dynamic analysis of software systems are a basis for
various tasks in software engineering research, such as performance evaluation and …

Context: In software visualization research, various approaches strive to create immersive
environments by employing extended reality devices. In that context, only few research has …

This paper presents software visualization tool that utilizes the modified city metaphor to
represent software system and related analysis data in virtual reality environment. To better …

ExplorViz supports research on software visualization, software comprehension tasks and
software collaboration. To achieve this, ExplorViz provides multi-level visualization from the …

Re-architecting a software system requires significant preparation, eg, to scope and design
new modules with their boundaries and constituent classes. When planning an intended …