Supporting the understanding of the evolution of software items

Therón, Roberto; González, Antonio; Garcia, Fabien

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“…Software visualization provides enormous advantages for the development process; to name a few, it supports project managers in communicating insights to their teams, it guides testers when exploring code for anomalies, it helps analysts to make sense of multivariate data, and it aids new developers in open software communities . However, visualization is not yet commonly used by developers.…”

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“…We characterize them according to the subject, process, and problem domain that we discuss in relation to the proposed visualization techniques. We found that one-third of the studies combined various visualization techniques, but most of them belong to one of the following 3 types: (1) techniques that use geometric transformations to explore structure and distribution, eg, parallel coordinates, (2) stacked techniques that are tailored to present data partitioned in a hierarchical fashion, eg, Treemap, and (3) pixel-oriented techniques that are suitable for displaying large amounts of data, eg, table lens. We found that software visualizations address problem domains that receive diverse levels of attention from developers.…”

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Towards actionable visualization for software developers

Merino

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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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Towards actionable visualization for software developers

Merino

Ghafari

Nierstrasz

2017

J Software Evolu Process

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“…Panas [231] visualizes the evolution of the signatures of software binaries to find malicious code. Theron et al [327] visualize the evolution of baselines and revisions of artifacts from software repositories. Verso [183] uses different views and animation to show structural and control version metrics of evolving software.…”

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Collaborative Software Visualization in Co-located Environments

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<p>Most software visualization systems and tools are designed from a single-user perspective and are bound to the desktop and IDEs. These design decisions do not allow users to analyse software collaboratively or to easily interact and navigate visualizations within a co-located environment at the same time. This thesis presents an exploratory study of collaborative software visualization using multi-touch tables in a co-located environment. The thesis contributes a richer understanding of how pairs of developers make use of shared visualizations on large multi-touch tables to gain insight into the design of software systems. We designed a collaborative software visualization application, called Source-Vis, that contained a suite of 13 visualization techniques adapted for multi-touch interaction. We built two large multi-touch tables (28 and 48 inches) following existing hardware designs, to explore and evaluate SourceVis. We then conducted both qualitative and quantitative user studies, culminating in a study of 44 professional software developers working in pairs. We found that pairs preferred joint group work, used a variety of coupling styles, and made many transitions between coupling and arrangement styles. For collaborative group work we recommend designing for joint group work over parallel individual work, supporting a flexible variety of coupling styles, and supporting fluid transitions between coupling and arrangement styles. We found that the preferred style for joint group work was closely coupled and arranged side by side. We found some global functionally was not easily accessible. We found some of the user interactions and visual interface elements were not designed consistently. For the design of collaborative software visualizations we recommend designing visualizations for closely coupled arrangements with rotation features, providing functionality in the appropriate locality, and providing consistent user interactions and visual interface design. We found sometimes visualization windows overlapped each other and text was hard to read in windows. We found when pairs were performing joint group work the size of the table was appropriate but not for parallel individual. We found that because the table could not differentiate between different simultaneous users that some pair interactions were limited. For the design of multi-touch tables we recommend providing a high resolution workspace, providing appropriate table space, and differentiating between simultaneous user interactions.</p>

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“… Uso de la Analítica Visual para observar la evolución de software con posibles aplicaciones como el mantenimiento del mismo (Therón, González, & García, 2008;Therón, González, García, & Santos, 2007). En concreto se propone la herramienta Maleku para llevar a cabo tal cometido (Gonzalez-Torres, Theron, García-Peñalvo, Wermelinger, & Yu, 2011).…”

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Personalización del aprendizaje: Framework de servicios para la integración de aplicaciones online en los sistemas de gestión del aprendizaje

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Supporting the understanding of the evolution of software items

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Towards actionable visualization for software developers

Towards actionable visualization for software developers

Collaborative Software Visualization in Co-located Environments

Personalización del aprendizaje: Framework de servicios para la integración de aplicaciones online en los sistemas de gestión del aprendizaje

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