Article,
Visual Programming and Program Visualization – Towards an Ideal Visual Software Engineering System –
International Journal on Information Technology, 1 (3): 7 (December 2011)
Abstract
There has been a great interest recently in systems
that use graphics to aid in the programming, debugging, and
understanding of computer systems. The ‘’Visual
Programming’’ and ‘’Program Visualization’’ are exciting
areas of active computer science research that show promise
for improving the programming process, for this they have
been applied to these systems. This article attempts to provide
more meaning to these terms by giving precise definitions,
and then surveys a number of systems that can be classified as
providing Visual Programming or Program Visualization.
These systems are organized by classifying them into two
different taxonomies. The paper also gives a brief description
of our approach that concentrated on both Visual Programming
and Program Visualization for an Ideal Visual Software
Engineering System. We consider it as a new promising trend
in software engineering.
