Emerging design

Westhuizen, C. Van der; Chen, Ping‐Hei; Hoek, André van der

doi:10.1145/1137620.1137626

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“…EvolTrack is a software visualization tool that provides a time based approach to observe the emerging design [21] at different moments during the development life cycle. Basically, it periodically extracts project information from a specific data source and then, after doing some pre-processing and transformation, presents the corresponding software design for that period of the project.…”

Section: Evoltrack Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

EvolTrack: improving design evolution awareness in software development

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Software differs from most manufactured products because it is intangible. This characteristic makes it difficult to detect, control, and understand how it evolves. This paper presents an approach based on software visualization that can detect and externalize design evolution made in a software project during its initial development or at any further phase. By using this approach, a developer can be aware of the current state of the software as a whole and can additionally verify if the current design, also called emerging design, is evolving according to the team expectations and leader guidance, preventing problems caused by misunderstandings of the expected software solution. The approach was evaluated with free/open source software (FOSS) projects. The results indicate that the approach behaves as expected when applied to real software development projects, with minor performance bottlenecks.

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Section: Evoltrack Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%