The Software Garden: Software Quality Visualization for Non-programmers
The Software Garden:  Software Quality Visualization for Non-programmers

The idea here is to come up with a visualization of source code that would give some indication of quality to non-programmers.Imagine for example a service that indexes open source code and provides such a visualization in the form of gardens.  A non-programmer could quickly examine and compare the gardens for some competing open source software applications.Bad smells in the source code would manifest themselves in the form of a poorly maintained garden.You could also show code evolution via an animation of the garden over time.

