Immersive Exploration of OSGi-Based Software Systems in Virtual Reality

Misiak, Martin; Seider, Doreen; Zur, Sascha; Fuhrmann, Arnulph; Schreiber, Andreas

doi:10.1109/vr.2018.8446057

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“…This opens up many opportunities in Human–computer Interaction (HCI). IslandViz ( Misiak et al, 2018 ; Seipel et al, 2019 ) lets developers visualize complex software architectures in 3D via Augmented Reality (AR). Speech-based commands are used to navigate and explore specific parts of the visualization in Microsoft Hololens.…”

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Bots in software engineering: a systematic mapping study

Santhanam

Hecking

Schreiber

et al. 2022

PeerJ Computer Science

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Bots have emerged from research prototypes to deployable systems due to the recent developments in machine learning, natural language processing and understanding techniques. In software engineering, bots range from simple automated scripts to decision-making autonomous systems. The spectrum of applications of bots in software engineering is so wide and diverse, that a comprehensive overview and categorization of such bots is needed. Existing works considered selective bots to be analyzed and failed to provide the overall picture. Hence it is significant to categorize bots in software engineering through analyzing why, what and how the bots are applied in software engineering. We approach the problem with a systematic mapping study based on the research articles published in this topic. This study focuses on classification of bots used in software engineering, the various dimensions of the characteristics, the more frequently researched area, potential research spaces to be explored and the perception of bots in the developer community. This study aims to provide an introduction and a broad overview of bots used in software engineering. Discussions of the feedback and results from several studies provide interesting insights and prospective future directions.

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Bots in software engineering: a systematic mapping study

Santhanam

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Schreiber

et al. 2022

PeerJ Computer Science

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“…In our previous works for VR [9] and AR [2] we use gesture control and hand controller to navigate to individual islands, regions or buildings which can be selected for detailed inspection and displaying service and dependency relationships. However, we observed that relying solely on gesture control makes exploration limited to navigation.…”

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“…Those activities need to be improved as they are relevant in many scenarios such as gaining a project overview for onboarding new developers, discussing architectural decisions and quality attributes with stakeholders, testing and debugging by developers. To improve the exploration task, we developed multiple approaches in 2D, 3D and Virtual Reality (VR) to visualize software architectures in our previous work [13], [9]. With the use of see-through visors, AR allows to exploit the real world for visualizing software systems effectively.…”

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Speak to your Software Visualization—Exploring Component-Based Software Architectures in Augmented Reality with a Conversational Interface

Seipel

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2019 Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)

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Exploring of software architectures with software visualization in Augmented Reality (AR) is possible with different interaction methods, such gesture, gaze, and speech. For interaction with speech (i.e., natural language), we present an architecture and an implementation of conversational interfaces for the Microsoft HoloLens device. We aim to remedy some peculiarities of AR devices, but also enhancing the exploration task at hand. To implement the conversational interface different natural language processing (NLP) components such as natural language generation and intent recognition are typically required. Our proposed architecture integrates conversational components with the AR-based software visualization. We describe its implementation based on different user utterances, where the system provides information about the to-be-explored component-based software architecture in the form of adjusted visualizations and speech-based results. We apply out tool to explore OSGi-based software architectures.

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“…Consequently, it is helpful to visualize the time aspect of a software project because relevant information can be found in the software history. The software IslandViz [6], [7], which is particularly suited for the representation of modular software doesn't support the representation of software history until now. IslandViz visualizes the software architecture of a software system based on OSGi (Open Service Gateway Initiative) 1 in VR, using the real-world metaphor of islands ( Figure 1).…”

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Visualization of Evolution of Component-Based Software Architectures in Virtual Reality

Heidmann

Kurnatowski

Meinecke

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2020 Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)

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The visualization of software architectures by the use of effective and feasible visual metaphors provides an intuitive approach to comprehend the implemented architecture of a software project. In this regard not only the visualization of the latest status of the implemented architecture is important, but also the visualization of the history of software architectures. Such visualizations show dependencies and contexts in which design decisions were made. Resulting information supports programmers to understand systems and to recognize disadvantageous design decisions. A software which is particularly suited for the visualization of component-based software is IslandViz. This software visualizes OSGi-based software architectures in Virtual Reality with an island metaphor, but at this point the history of an architecture is not taken into account. In this paper we present how IslandViz can be extended to visualize the history of software architectures of OSGi-based software projects. For this purpose we use algorithms for dynamic graphs to realize a dynamic positioning of the islands and an adaptable layout of the regions on the islands. The aim is to ensure that the user's orientation in the virtual environment is preserved even if elements of the visualization must adapt due to changes in the software history.

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Immersive Exploration of OSGi-Based Software Systems in Virtual Reality

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Bots in software engineering: a systematic mapping study

Bots in software engineering: a systematic mapping study

Speak to your Software Visualization—Exploring Component-Based Software Architectures in Augmented Reality with a Conversational Interface

Visualization of Evolution of Component-Based Software Architectures in Virtual Reality

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