The Untapped Potential of Software Visualization

Explore the untapped potential of software visualization in this conference talk from C++Now 2018. Discover how visualization techniques can significantly improve code comprehension and developer productivity. Learn about the principles of human visual perception and their application in software engineering. Examine various software visualization fields and their impact on understanding complex systems. Develop a simple visual notation to accelerate source code comprehension. See a practical demonstration using Sourcetrail, a cross-platform source explorer built on LLVM/Clang LibTooling, to navigate large codebases more efficiently. Gain insights from Eberhard Gräther, a software engineer and UX designer, on leveraging visual tools to address the challenge of spending excessive time reading and understanding existing code rather than writing new code.