Maleku: An evolutionary visual software analysis tool for providing insights into software evolution

Abstract

Software maintenance is a complex process that requires the understanding and comprehension of software project details. It involves the understanding of the evolution of the software project, hundreds of software components and the relationships among software items in the form of inheritance, interface implementation, coupling and cohesion. Consequently, the aim of evolutionary visual software analytics is to support software project managers and developers during software maintenance. It takes into account the mining of evolutionary data, the subsequent analysis of the results produced by the mining process for producing evolution facts, the use of visualizations supported by interaction techniques and the active participation of users. Hence, this paper proposes an evolutionary visual software analytics tool for the exploration and comparison of project structural, interface implementation and class hierarchy data, and the correlation of structural data with metrics, as well as socio-technical relationships. Its main contribution is a tool that automatically retrieves evolutionary software facts and represent them using a scalable visualization design.978-1-4577-0664-6/11/$26.00 ©2011 IEEE

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“…These tools essentially offer a timeline for the visualization of software artifacts, such as project hierarchies [15] or metric values [16].…”

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“…On the other hand, several tools have been developed to assist software maintenance by visualizing various aspects of software evolution; however, to the best of our knowledge these tools do not treat the software system as a network. These tools essentially offer a timeline for the visualization of software artifacts, such as project hierarchies (González-Torres et al, 2011) or metric values (Pinzger et al, 2005).…”

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