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.
Charter
Charter of the IEEE VISSOFT is available online. It was modified for the last time on September 23, 2016.Next Conference
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)
- VISSOFT 2021, September 27-28, hosted virtually, originally to be held in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Previous Editions
The Working Conference on Software Visualization VISSOFT was preceded by six editions of the VISSOFT workshop, and five editions of SOFTVIS, as follows:
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)
- VISSOFT 2020, September 28-29, hosted virtually, originally to be held in Adelaide, Australia (proceedings)
- VISSOFT 2019, September 30 - October 1, Cleveland, USA (proceedings)
- VISSOFT 2018, September 18-19, Madrid, Spain (proceedings, Summary)
- VISSOFT 2017, September 18-19, Shangahi, China (proceedings, photo gallery, Summary)
- VISSOFT 2016, October 3-4, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (proceedings, photo gallery)
- VISSOFT 2015, September 27-28, Bremen, Germany (proceedings)
- VISSOFT 2014, September 29-30, Victoria, CA (proceedings)
- VISSOFT 2013, September 27-28, Eindhoven, Netherlands (proceedings)
IEEE International Workshops on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT)
- VISSOFT 2011, September 29-30, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA (proceedings, Summary)
- VISSOFT 2009, September 25, Edmonton, Canada (proceedings)
- VISSOFT 2007, June 25-26, Banff, Canada (proceedings)
- VISSOFT 2005, September 25, Budapest, Hungary (proceedings)
- VISSOFT 2003, September 22, Amsterdam, Netherlands (proceedings)
- VISSOFT 2002, June 26, Paris, France (proceedings)
ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SOFTVIS)
- SOFTVIS 2010, October 25-25, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (proceedings, Summary)
- SOFTVIS 2008, September 16-17, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany (proceedings)
- SOFTVIS 2006, September 4-5, Brighton, United Kindom (proceedings)
- SOFTVIS 2005, September 14-15, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA (proceedings)
- SOFTVIS 2003, June 11-13, San Diego, California, USA (proceedings)
Steering Committee
Fabian Beck (chair)
Since 2015
University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany
Andrea Mocci
Since 2017
Università della Svizzera italiana,
Switzerland
Ivan Beschastnikh
Since 2017
University of British Columbia,
Canada
Fabio Petrillo
Since 2020
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi,
Canada
Leonel Merino
Since 2020
University of Stuttgart,
Germany
Bonita Sharif
Since 2017
University of Nebraska – Lincoln,
USA
Past Steering Committee Members
- 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
Best Paper Awards
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VISSOFT 2020: Memory Cities: Visualizing Heap Memory Evolution Using the Software City Metaphor
Markus Weninger, Lukas Makor, and Hanspeter Mössenböck. -
VISSOFT 2019: Performance Evolution Matrix: Visualizing Performance Variations along Software Versions
Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer, Fabian Beck, Alexandre Bergel. -
VISSOFT 2018: Overcoming Issues of 3D Software Visualization through Immersive Augmented Reality
Leonel Merino, Alexandre Bergel and Oscar Nierstrasz. -
VISSOFT 2017: Visual Exploration of Memory Traces and Call Stacks
Patrick Gralka, Christoph Schulz, Guido Reina, Daniel Weiskopf and Thomas Ertl. -
VISSOFT 2016: Towards Actionable Visualisation in Software Development
Leonel Merino, Mohammad Ghafari, and Oscar Nierstrasz. -
VISSOFT 2015: Hierarchical Software Landscape Visualization for System Comprehension: A Controlled Experiment
Florian Fittkau, Alexander Krause, Wilhelm Hasselbring.
Most Influent Paper Awards (MIP)
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VISSOFT 2020: Visualizing Software Systems as Cities
Richard Wettel and Michele Lanza. -
VISSOFT 2019: A System for Graph-Based Visualization of the Evolution of Software
Christian Collberg, Stephen Kobourov, Jasvir Nagra, Jacob Pitts, and Kevin Wampler. -
VISSOFT 2018: The paradox of software visualization
Steven P. Reiss. -
VISSOFT 2017: A task oriented view of software visualization
J. I. Maletic, A. Marcus and M. L. Collard.
Contact
This webpage is maintained by the steering committee and was last updated January 26, 2021. If you have any requests, please contact the current chair (see above).
Thanks to Alexandre Bergel, Milton Mamani, and Juan Pablo Sandoval, as well as Department of Computer Science, University of Chile for maintaining and hosting the page until 2020.
Restricted Access
We keep sensitive data about the VISSOFT series conference on GitHub. Access to these documents is restricted.