Applying Visualization Concepts to Large-Scale Software Systems in Industrial Automation

Lisa Sonnleithner; Philipp Bauer; Rick Rabiser; Alois Zoitl

doi:10.1109/VISSOFT55257.2022.00029

Applying Visualization Concepts to Large-Scale Software Systems in Industrial Automation

Lisa Sonnleithner, Philipp Bauer, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl

LIT Cyber-Physical Systems Lab

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Abstract

In recent years, the field of industrial automation is experiencing a dramatic increase of software development and maintenance effort. Driven by shorter product life-cycles and customizable products, production systems are becoming more and more complex, presenting new challenges for control software engineers. In this paper, we report on a visualization concept we applied to industrial automation software. It allows automation software developers to take a look at their software system from a new perspective. Various ways of interacting with the visualization offer further benefits, such as the convenient tracing of control and information flow across multiple hierarchies. We conducted a workshop with five industrial domain experts as a first evaluation of the usefulness of the visualization. Based on their feedback, we discuss open questions and next steps.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2022 Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2022
Place of Publication	New York City, USA
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	182-186
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665480925
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-8092-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VISSOFT55257.2022.00029
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - 2022 Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2022

Fields of science

202017 Embedded systems
102022 Software development
102025 Distributed systems
102029 Practical computer science
202003 Automation
202041 Computer engineering

JKU Focus areas

Digital Transformation

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Sonnleithner, L., Bauer, P., Rabiser, R., & Zoitl, A. (2022). Applying Visualization Concepts to Large-Scale Software Systems in Industrial Automation. In Proceedings - 2022 Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2022 (pp. 182-186). (Proceedings - 2022 Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2022). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/VISSOFT55257.2022.00029

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Applying Visualization Concepts to Large-Scale Software Systems in Industrial Automation. / Sonnleithner, Lisa; Bauer, Philipp; Rabiser, Rick et al.
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Sonnleithner L, Bauer P, Rabiser R , Zoitl A. Applying Visualization Concepts to Large-Scale Software Systems in Industrial Automation. In Proceedings - 2022 Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2022. New York City, USA: IEEE. 2022. p. 182-186. (Proceedings - 2022 Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2022). doi: 10.1109/VISSOFT55257.2022.00029

Applying Visualization Concepts to Large-Scale Software Systems in Industrial Automation

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