– Towards an Ideal Visual Software Engineering

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. Index Terms — visual language, visual programming, program visualization. I