CocoViz: Towards Cognitive Software Visualizations

Boccuzzo, Sandro; Gall, Harald C.

doi:10.1109/vissof.2007.4290703

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“…The feasibility of the CocoViz audio-visual approach was shown in previous work [3]- [5]. With the presented automated software comprehension tasks we selected an exemplary set of common comprehension tasks solvable with a semi-automated workflow (Table I), and showed that we experience a reduced workload by using automated tasks in the software comprehension and exploration context.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Based on whether the interaction needs to reconfigure a comprehension task and / or reperform an algorithm, dedicated actions are taken. For example, an engineer changes the maximal value visible for a mapped metric Number of Attributes in the SV-Mixer [3]. The comprehension task is notified and checks whether the algorithm affected by this changed metric needs to be updated.…”

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“…Explorative software visualizations such as polymetric views [1]- [3] allow an interactive approach, by offering filter and customization support to limit the amount of software entities in a view. Adding automated procedures in visualizations such as finding patterns, addressing implemented features and supporting refactoring, help users with understanding the evolved architecture on various levels.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within the CocoViz project 1 we aim at enhancing existing maintenance and evolution analysis methods to present a software system in an intuitively understandable visualization [3]. CocoViz allows one to customize views, filtering out irrelevant entities and interacting with them, by simply controlling the mapped values with sliders.…”

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Automated Comprehension Tasks in Software Exploration

Boccuzzo

Gall

2009

2009 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

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Abstract-Finding issues in software usually requires a serie of comprehension tasks. After every task, an engineer explores the results and decides whether further tasks are required. Software comprehension therefore is a combination of tasks and a supported exploration of the results typically in an adequate visualization. In this paper, we describe how we simplify the combination of existing automated procedures to sequentially solve common software comprehension tasks. Beyond that we improve the understanding of the outcomes with interactive and explorative visualization concepts in a time efficient workflow. We validate the presented concept with basic comprehension tasks in an extended CocoViz tool implementation.

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Automated Comprehension Tasks in Software Exploration

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Gall

2009

2009 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

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“…Another visualization uses a house metaphor to visualize software metrics of all classes in a package, as shown in Figure 5. A three-dimensional variation of this visualization was initially presented by Boccuzzo et al [10]. In this metaphor, well-designed classes are meant to be represented by normal looking houses, while classes that do not follow objectoriented design principles are represented by unnaturallylooking houses that are, for example, too narrow or too wide.…”

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An approach for collaborative code reviews using multi-touch technology

Müller

Wursch

Fritz

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2012 5th International Workshop on Co-Operative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE)

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Code reviews are an effective mechanism to improve software quality, but often fall short in the development of software. To improve the desirability and ease of code reviews, we introduce an approach that explores how multi-touch interfaces can support code reviews and can make them more collaborative. Our approach provides users with features to collaboratively find and investigate code smells, annotate source code and generate review reports using gesture recognition and a Microsoft Surface Table. In a preliminary evaluation, subjects generally liked the prototypical implementation of our approach for performing code review tasks. Abstract-Code reviews are an effective mechanism to improve software quality, but often fall short in the development of software. To improve the desirability and ease of code reviews, we introduce an approach that explores how multi-touch interfaces can support code reviews and can make them more collaborative. Our approach provides users with features to collaboratively find and investigate code smells, annotate source code and generate review reports using gesture recognition and a Microsoft Surface Table. In a preliminary evaluation, subjects generally liked the prototypical implementation of our approach for performing code review tasks.

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EvoSpaces - Multi-dimensional Navigation Spaces for Software Evolution

Lanza

Gall

Dugerdil

2009

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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EvoSpaces is a Swiss-wide research project sponsored by the Hasler foundation. It involves three partners: University of Zurich, University of Lugano and the University of Applied Sciences in Geneva. The overall goal of the project is to explore novel ways to visualize and navigate evolving software systems in a 3D environment. In this paper we briefly describe the particularities of the project and the results obtained so far.

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CocoViz: Towards Cognitive Software Visualizations

Cited by 23 publications

References 13 publications

Automated Comprehension Tasks in Software Exploration

Automated Comprehension Tasks in Software Exploration

An approach for collaborative code reviews using multi-touch technology

EvoSpaces - Multi-dimensional Navigation Spaces for Software Evolution

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