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Rapid visual design with semantics encoding through 3d CRC cards

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Physical CRC cards (Classes -- Responsibilities - Collaborators) is a well-known method for rapid software-design prototyping. It is commonly applied with numeric heuristics to encode design semantics and denote architectural relationships through card coloring, size variations and spatial grouping. Existing CRC design tools are weak in terms of interactivity and visualization, focusing mainly on form-based specification and documentation. We present Flying Circus, a tool for rapid and exploratory software-design prototyping via CRC cards, offering facilities such as: interactive 3d visualizations with zooming, panning and rotational design inspection, 3d card manipulators, and immersive navigation via stereoscopic views. Our tool is accompanied with specific encoding strategies to represent design semantics and exploit spatial memory and visual pattern matching, while emphasizing highly interactive software-design visualizations.

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SoftVis '08: Proceedings of the 4th ACM symposium on Software visualization
September 2008
228 pages
ISBN:9781605581125
DOI:10.1145/1409720
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  1. rapid prototyping
  2. visual design encoding
  3. visual software design

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  • (2014)Are smartphones better than CRC cards?Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/2554850.2554852(987-994)Online publication date: 24-Mar-2014
  • (2012)Using mobile devices for collaborative requirements engineeringProceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering10.1145/2351676.2351729(298-301)Online publication date: 3-Sep-2012
  • (2011)CREWWProceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering10.1145/1985793.1985923(852-855)Online publication date: 21-May-2011

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