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We report on the state-of-the-art of software visualization. To ensure reproducibility, we adopted the Systematic Literature Review methodology. That is, we analyzed 1440 entries from IEEE Xplore and ACM Digital Library databases. We selected 105 relevant full papers published in 2013–2019, which we classified based on the aspect of the software system that is supported (i.e., structure, behavior, and evolution). For each paper, we extracted main dimensions that characterize software visualizations, such as software engineering tasks, roles of users, information visualization techniques, and media used to display visualizations. We provide researchers in the field an overview of the state-of-the-art in software visualization and highlight research opportunities. We also help developers to identify suitable visualizations for their particular context by matching software visualizations to development concerns and concrete details to obtain available visualization tools.

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This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61772463, 61772456, 61761136020). Merino acknowledges funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project-ID 251654672 – TRR 161. We thank Wilhelm Hasselbring, Michael Homer, Rainer Koschke, Roberto Minelli, Daniel Rozenberg, and Juraj Vincur for permitting us to reuse exemplary figures of their software visualizations.

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  3. School of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Xu Zheng

  4. College of Computer Science, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

    Mingliang Xu

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Chotisarn, N., Merino, L., Zheng, X. et al. A systematic literature review of modern software visualization. J Vis 23, 539–558 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12650-020-00647-w

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