Towards a One-Stop-Shop for Analysis, Transformation and Visualization of Software

Over the last two years the authors have been developing the meta-programming language RASCAL that aims at providing a concise and effective language for performing meta-programming tasks such as the analysis and transformation of existing source code and models, and the implementation of domain-specific languages. However, meta-programming tasks also require seamlessly integrated visualization facilities. They are therefore now aiming at a "One-Stop-Shop" for analysis, transformation and visualization. In this paper, they give a status report on this ongoing effort and sketch the requirements for an interactive visualization framework and describe the solutions they came up with.