Paper Info
Title
LibViews - An Information Visualization Application for Third-Party Libraries on Software Projects
Abstract
Software libraries allow developers to create software projects upon basic functions already implemented. In this way, it is possible to focus on more complex activities to achieve the software solution aims. Software libraries features and availability on the Internet are the reason for these valuable project resources are widely used. However, there may be some issues in software projects that integrate several libraries, since they are independent projects that must work together. This paper presents LibViews, an information visualization application to create visual representations over libraries metrics and usage on software projects. LibViews was developed to provide a better understanding of libraries versions and their role in software projects, helping in the maintenance of these projects identifying previously unknown information. As use case, LibViews was applied in an university corporate software project, pointing out as a useful tool to understand the relationship between software project and its third-party libraries.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/IV.2016.43
2016 20th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Information Visualization,Libraries,Software Dependencies,Software Library Manager,Third-Party Libraries
Software engineering,Software analytics,Software peer review,Computer science,Software project management,Software construction,Team software process,Software development,Software framework,Social software engineering
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-6037
978-1-4673-8943-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juliana Cassiano Ferrarezi100.34
Mário Popolin Neto200.34
diego roberto colombo dias384.02
Andre Luiz Pilastri400.68
Marcelo de Paiva Guimarães500.34
José Remo Ferreira Brega600.34