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Chapter 5 Future Perspectives

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Software Visualization

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It has been a long way since Knowlton’s movie about list processing with the programming language L6 [14]. Thousands of algorithm animations, hundreds of systems, and numerous case studies and evaluations have been produced since. But don’t get me wrong, it’s not all said and done? By and large software visualization research has concentrated on a few aspects of software. So you might ask, what should it concentrate on in the future? To answer this question we present a quantitative map of existing research and discuss some cross-topic research themes.

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Diehl, S. (2002). Chapter 5 Future Perspectives. In: Diehl, S. (eds) Software Visualization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2269. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45875-1_27

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