Software Design Visualization

The need to understand complex designs for systems is ever increasing. The opportunity exists to improve the development processes by equipping system design teams with the ability to explore the outer and inner workings of a system throughout development in a manner that is intuitive and insightful. SimVentions will continue researching the modeling of the complex and rich relationships within design techniques to allow people to quickly navigate, interrogate, and analyze system design and behavior from static and dynamic views. There are three facets of SimVentions’ plan: 1) Combine existing modeling techniques into shared models, 2) Prototype new visualizations and models enabled by those techniques, 3) Demonstrate these capabilities in a demanding software component / subsystem – Alert Management Services (ALMAS). The results will be a tool framework that provides a shared system model among design techniques, new visualizations of this model, and implementation of a tactical software component (ALMAS) using the tool. This is an ambitious challenge that must be met to maintain our advantages in military domains and the development of commercial mission critical software. Enabling designers to understand their system earlier; save money, time, and potentially lives by identifying and preventing problems before they are built.