GETAVIZ: Generating Structural, Behavioral, and Evolutionary Views of Software Systems for Empirical Evaluation

Baum, David; Schilbach, Jan; Kovacs, Pascal; Eisenecker, Ulrich W.; Müller, Richard

doi:10.1109/vissoft.2017.12

Cited by 17 publications

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“…With better support for the WebAR interface, WebGL-based frameworks such as A-Frame could possibly be more suitable in the future. Existing web-based software analytics tools such as Getaviz already rely on A-Frame [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Identifying Usability Issues of Software Analytics Applications in Immersive Augmented Reality

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Bechert²,

Eisenecker³

et al. 2020

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Software analytics in augmented reality (AR) is said to have great potential. One reason why this potential is not yet fully exploited may be usability problems of the AR user interfaces. We present an iterative and qualitative usability evaluation with 15 subjects of a state-of-the-art application for software analytics in AR. We could identify and resolve numerous usability issues. Most of them were caused by applying conventional user interface elements, such as dialog windows, buttons, and scrollbars. The used city visualization, however, did not cause any usability issues. Therefore, we argue that future work should focus on making conventional user interface elements in AR obsolete by integrating their functionality into the immersive visualization.

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“…This is the de facto standard for HoloLens applications. To focus on the user interface, we have integrated our application into the Getaviz framework, which can create city visualizations for Java, C#, and Ruby programs [16]. We import the output of Getaviz into Unity 3D and thus provide an alternative user interface for Getaviz.…”

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confidence: 99%

Identifying Usability Issues of Software Analytics Applications in Immersive Augmented Reality

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Eisenecker³

et al. 2020

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“…Interview The complete evaluation was done using the evaluation server of Getaviz [2]. It displays three random graphs at the same time (see Fig.…”

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Exploring the Design Space of Aesthetics with the Repertory Grid Technique

Baum¹

2020

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By optimizing aesthetics, graph diagrams can be generated that are easier to read and understand. However, the challenge lies in identifying suitable aesthetics. We present a novel approach based on repertory grids to explore the design space of aesthetics systematically. We applied our approach with three independent groups of participants to systematically identify graph aesthetics. In all three cases, we were able to reproduce the aesthetics with positively evaluated influence on readability without any prior knowledge. We also applied our approach to two-and three-dimensional domain-specific software visualizations to demonstrate its versatility. In this case, we were also able to acquire several aesthetics that are relevant for perceiving the visualization.

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“…1). b) Visualisation Design: Getaviz 3 is an open source toolkit for the designing and generating software visualisations [6]. Getaviz includes the automatic generation of visualisations for several visualisation metaphors.…”

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Visualizing Design Erosion: How Big Balls of Mud are Made

Baum

Dietrich

Anslow

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)

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Software systems are not static, they have to undergo frequent changes to stay fit for purpose, and in the process of doing so, their complexity increases. It has been observed that this process often leads to the erosion of the systems design and architecture and with it, the decline of many desirable quality attributes, such as maintainability. This process can be captured in terms of antipatterns -atomic violations of widely accepted design principles. We present a visualisation that exposes the design of evolving Java programs, highlighting instances of selected antipatterns including their emergence and cancerous growth. This visualisation assists software engineers and architects in assessing, tracing and therefore combating design erosion. We evaluated the effectiveness of the visualisation in four case studies with ten participants.

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GETAVIZ: Generating Structural, Behavioral, and Evolutionary Views of Software Systems for Empirical Evaluation

Cited by 17 publications

References 20 publications

Identifying Usability Issues of Software Analytics Applications in Immersive Augmented Reality

Identifying Usability Issues of Software Analytics Applications in Immersive Augmented Reality

Exploring the Design Space of Aesthetics with the Repertory Grid Technique

Visualizing Design Erosion: How Big Balls of Mud are Made

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