Metrics Visualization Technique Based on the Origins and Function Layers for OSS-Based Development

Ishizue, Ryosuke; Washizaki, Hironori; Fukazawa, Yoshiaki; Inoue, Sakae; Hanai, Yoshiiku; Kanazawa, Masanobu; Namba, Katsushi

doi:10.1109/vissoft.2016.12

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“…DSLs usually offer higher-level constructs (e.g., rules) in comparison to GPLs . Thus, it is challenging for metamodels to describe GPL programs at appropriate abstraction levels according to specific purposes, such as program analysis (Washizaki and Fukazawa 2005), visualization (Ishizue et al 2016), etc.…”

Section: Program Reverse Engineeringmentioning

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ProMeTA: a taxonomy for program metamodels in program reverse engineering

2018

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To support program comprehension, maintenance, and evolution, metamodels are frequently used during program reverse engineering activities to describe and analyze constituents of a program and their relations. Reverse engineering tools often define their own metamodels according to the intended purposes and features. Although each metamodel has its own advantages, its limitations may be addressed by other metamodels. Existing works have evaluated and compared metamodels and tools, but none have considered all the possible characteristics and limitations to provide a comprehensive guideline for classifying, comparing, reusing, and extending program metamodels. To aid practitioners and researchers in classifying, comparing, reusing, and extending program metamodels and their corresponding reverse engineering tools according to the intended goals, we establish a conceptual framework with definitions of program metamodels and related concepts. We confirmed that any reverse engineering activity can be clearly described as a pattern based on the framework from the viewpoint of program metamodels. Then the framework is used (2018) 23:2323-2358 to provide a comprehensive taxonomy, named Program Metamodel TAxonomy (ProMeTA), which incorporates newly identified characteristics into those stated in previous works, which were identified via a systematic literature review (SLR) on program metamodels, while keeping the orthogonality of the entire taxonomy. Additionally, we validate the taxonomy in terms of its orthogonality and usefulness through the classification of popular metamodels.Empir Software Eng

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Section: Program Reverse Engineeringmentioning

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ProMeTA: a taxonomy for program metamodels in program reverse engineering

2018

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“…De¯nition 1 À À À Origin: The creation and modi¯cation history of a¯le. This term was de¯ned in a previous study [1,4].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Developers tend to have di±culty reviewing products because adequate methods to e®ectively consider these two properties do not exist [1][2][3]. This is our motivation.…”

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“…a This paper is an extended version of a paper \Metrics visualization technique based on the origins and function layers for OSS-based development" [1] presented at the fourth IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2016). In the previous paper, we only de¯ned and explained our visualization methods via a small experiment.…”

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Metrics Visualization Techniques Based on Historical Origins and Functional Layers for Developments by Multiple Organizations

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Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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Software developments involving multiple organizations such as Open Source Software (OSS)-based projects tend to have numerous defects when one organization develops and another organization edits the program source code files. Developments with complex file creation, modification history (origin), and software architecture (functional layer) are increasing in OSS-based development. As an example, we focus on an Android smart phone and a VirtualBox development project, and propose new visualization techniques for product metrics based on file origin and functional layers. One is the Metrics Area Figure, which can express duplication of edits by multiple organizations intuitively using overlapping figures. The other is Origin City, which was inspired by Code City. It can represent the scale and other measurements, while simultaneously stacking functional layers as 3D buildings. The contributions of our paper are to propose new techniques, implement them as web applications, and share the results of our questionnaire. Our proposed techniques are useful not only to visualize the measured metrics, but also to improve the product quality.

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