Paper Info
Title
Representing development history in software cities
Abstract
In this paper we describe a systematic approach to utilize the city metaphor for the visualization of large software systems as evolving software cities. The main contribution is a new layout approach which explicitly takes the development history of software systems into account and makes history directly visible in the layouts. These layouts incrementally evolve in a very smooth and stable way during the development of the represented software system. They are used as a visualization platform for integrating a large variety of product and process data and thus create a coherent set of specialized visualizations. To illustrate this we present some example maps capturing specific development history aspects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1879211.1879239
SOFTVIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
visualization platform,systematic approach,specialized visualization,software system,representing development history,new layout approach,large software system,large variety,specific development history aspect,software city,development history,software systems,software evolution,software visualization
Software analytics,Software engineering,Simulation,Computer science,Package development process,Software system,Human–computer interaction,Software development process,Software visualization,Software construction,Software development,Goal-Driven Software Development Process
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
24
0.96
20
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frank Steinbrückner11297.04
Claus Lewerentz266564.65