📣 Upcoming Edition: VISSOFT 2025 @ Auckland, New Zealand

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Mission

Software visualization is a broad research area encompassing concepts, methods, tools, and techniques that assist in a range of software engineering and software development activities. Covered aspects include the development and evaluation of approaches for visually analyzing software and software systems, including their structure, execution behavior, and evolution.

The VISSOFT IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization continues the history of the ACM SOFTVIS Symposium on Software Visualization and the IEEE VISSOFT International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis. The conference focuses on visualization techniques that target aspects of software maintenance and evolution, program comprehension, reverse engineering, and reengineering, i.e., how visualization helps professionals to understand, analyze, test and evolve software. We aim to gather tool developers, experts, users, and researchers from software engineering, information visualization, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization. We seek technical papers, empirical studies, applications, or case studies and provide a platform for presenting novel research ideas and tools.

📖 The VISSOFT Charter can be downloaded here. It was last edited on September 23, 2016.

Previous Editions

Steering Committee

Previous Members

• Ivan Beschastnikh (From 2017 until 2022), University of British Columbia, Canada
• Andrea Mocci (From 2017 until 2022), Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
• Alexandre Bergel (From 2015 until 2020), University of Chile, Chile
• Craig Anslow (From 2015 until 2020), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Houari Sahraoui (From 2013 until 2017), University of Montreal, Canada
• Rainer Koschke (From 2013 until 2017), Universitat Bremen, Germany
• Carsten Görg (From 2010 until 2017), University of Colorado, USA
• Stephan Diehl, University of Trier, Germany
• Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University, USA
• Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland
• Jonathan Maletic, Kent State University, USA
• Steven P. Reiss, Brown University, RI, USA
• Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada
• Alexandru C. Telea, University of Groningen, The Netherlands