Software Visualization definition:

Software visualization is the use of computer graphics and animation to help illustrate and present computer programs, processes, and algorithms. Software visualization systems can be used, in teaching to help students understand how algorithms work, and they can be used in program development as a way to help programmers understand their code better.

Some Visualization Research Groups

• Software Visualization Research in the Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center (GVU) at Georgia Institute of Technology

• JHAVÉ is a Java-Hosted Algorithm Visualization Environment under (never-ending) development by Tom Naps of the Computer Science Department at the University of Wisconsin -- Oshkosh.

• Center for Geometric Computing at Brown University

• Software Visualization Research Group at Helsinki University of Technology

• Software Visualization Research Group at Open University (UK)

• Educational Technology Research Group at University of Joensuu

• The Educational Technology Research Group at University of Warwick

• Algorithm Engineering Research Group. University of Perugia

Some other useful Web Sites

• Graph Visualization