CityVR: Gameful Software Visualization

Merino, Leonel; Ghafari, Mohammad; Anslow, Craig; Nierstrasz, Oscar

doi:10.1109/icsme.2017.70

Cited by 54 publications

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“…We implemented a custom visualization using Unity 5.5 based on models of the cities exported from CodeCity. We made the source code of an improved implementation called CityVR [21] publicly available. iii ) Physical 3D model (P3D).…”

Section: A Experiments Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Impact of the Medium in the Effectiveness of 3D Software Visualizations

Merino

Fuchs

Blumenschein

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)

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Many visualizations have proven to be effective in supporting various software related tasks. Although multiple media can be used to display a visualization, the standard computer screen is used the most. We hypothesize that the medium has a role in their effectiveness. We investigate our hypotheses by conducting a controlled user experiment. In the experiment we focus on the 3D city visualization technique used for software comprehension tasks. We deploy 3D city visualizations across a standard computer screen (SCS), an immersive 3D environment (I3D), and a physical 3D printed model (P3D). We asked twenty-seven participants (whom we divided in three groups for each medium) to visualize software systems of various sizes, solve a set of uniform comprehension tasks, and complete a questionnaire. We measured the effectiveness of visualizations in terms of performance, recollection, and user experience. We found that even though developers using P3D required the least time to identify outliers, they perceived the least difficulty when visualizing systems based on SCS. Moreover, developers using I3D obtained the highest recollection.

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Section: A Experiments Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Impact of the Medium in the Effectiveness of 3D Software Visualizations

Merino

Fuchs

Blumenschein

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)

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“…In our previous work, we included the medium as one of the dimensions of the proposed software visualization taxonomy. Although the authors of a previous taxonomy envisioned a future where software visualizations would use a variety of media (eg, head‐mounted displays), Table shows that only few studies that we found exploited this dimension (and that we analyzed in detail in a recent experiment). Almost 56% of the reviewed studies do not mention the expected medium on which the visualization should be displayed (labeled as not identified).…”

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Towards actionable visualization for software developers

Merino

Ghafari

Nierstrasz

2017

J Software Evolu Process

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Abundant studies have shown that visualization is advantageous for software developers, yet adopting visualization during software development is not a common practice due to the large effort involved in finding an appropriate visualization. Developers require support to facilitate that task. Among 368 papers in SOFTVIS/VISSOFT venues, we identify 86 design study papers about the application of visualization to relieve concerns in software development. We extract from these studies the task, need, audience, data source, representation, medium, and tool, and we characterize them according to the subject, process, and problem domain. On the one hand, we support software developers to put visualization in action by mapping existing visualization techniques to particular needs from different perspectives. On the other hand, we highlight the problem domains that are overlooked in the field and need more support.

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“…Additionally, connecting edges is used to show the relations between files that contain code smells. Other scholars who have shed light on visualising aspects of software systems in general and code smells in particular include [13–18 ]. Despite the importance of visualising code smells, visualising the evolution of them has not received the consideration of the previously mentioned studies.…”

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Multi‐view city‐based approach for code‐smell evolution visualisation

2020

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Code smells are indicators of inappropriate and possibly harmful design decisions that could lead to issues in the comprehensibility and maintainability of software systems. To avoid such quality complications, understanding the presence and prioritising the removal of code smells are required. This study presents a visualisation approach to help better understanding the evolutional characteristics of code smells presented in the different versions of the software system. The core of the visualisation approach is the metaphor of buildings and building blocks. An overall framework for detecting, categorising and visualising code smells is proposed. Three types of code smells were considered in this study. The considered code smells are God Class, Long Method and Type Checking. The applicability of the proposed approach is demonstrated by evaluating several versions of an open‐source java software and visualising the detected code smells. Additionally, a pilot experimental study is conducted to empirically assure the usefulness of the proposed visualisations.

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CityVR: Gameful Software Visualization

Cited by 54 publications

References 18 publications

On the Impact of the Medium in the Effectiveness of 3D Software Visualizations

On the Impact of the Medium in the Effectiveness of 3D Software Visualizations

Towards actionable visualization for software developers

Multi‐view city‐based approach for code‐smell evolution visualisation

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