ON THE USE OF SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION TO ANALYZE SOFTWARE EVOLUTION An Interactive Differential Approach
Software evolution is one of the most important topics in modern software engineering research. This activity requires the analysis of large amounts of data describing the current software system structure as well as its previous history. Software visualization can be helpful in this scenario, as it can summarize this complex data into easy to interpret visual scenarios. This paper presents a interactive differential approach for visualizing software evolution. The approach builds multi-view structural descriptions of a software system directly from its source code, and uses colors to differentiate it from any other previous version. This differential approach is highly interactive allowing the user to quickly brush over many pairs of versions of the system. As a proof of concept, we used the approach to analyze eight versions of an open source system and found out it was useful to quickly identify hot spot and code smell candidates in them.
Software visualization Software evolution.
Renato Lima Novais Glauco de F. Carneiro1 Paulo R. M. Simǒs Jǔior1,
Computer Science Department, Federal University of Bahia, Bahia, Brazil
国际会议
13th International Conference on Enterprise Information System(第13届企业信息系统国际会议 ICEIS 2011)
北京
英文
88-97
2011-06-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）