Software landscape and application visualization for system comprehension with ExplorViz

Fittkau, Florian; Krause, Alexander; Hasselbring, Wilhelm

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2016.07.004

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“…Finally, given that logs are often not easy to be understood as they are, visualizations that aim to support reasoning of runtime behavior have also been proposed. Examples of such work are visual depictions to better understand performance issues [3,11], to understand how the diferent components of a distributed system behave and/or relate to each [1,42,63], and to visualize the diferent nodes of a cluster by means of a city landscape metaphor [22].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Monitoring-aware IDEs

Winter¹,

Aniche

Cito

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of

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Engineering modern large-scale software requires software developers to not solely focus on writing code, but also to continuously examine monitoring data to reason about the dynamic behavior of their systems. These additional monitoring responsibilities for developers have only emerged recently, in the light of DevOps culture. Interestingly, software development activities happen mainly in the IDE, while reasoning about production monitoring happens in separate monitoring tools. We propose an approach that integrates monitoring signals into the development environment and worklow. We conjecture that an IDE with such capability improves the performance of developers as time spent continuously context switching from development to monitoring would be eliminated. This paper takes a irst step towards understanding the beneits of a possible Monitoring-Aware IDE. We implemented a prototype of a Monitoring-Aware IDE, connected to the monitoring systems of Adyen, a large-scale payment company that performs intense monitoring in their software systems. Given our results, we irmly believe that Monitoring-Aware IDEs can play an essential role in improving how developers perform monitoring. CCS CONCEPTS • Software and its engineering → Integrated and visual development environments;

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Monitoring-aware IDEs

Winter¹,

Aniche

Cito

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of

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“…Code Park [4] proposes an immersive visualization of software metrics and source code; an evaluation showed that the visualization displayed in virtual reality excels at usability and significantly helps in code understanding. ExplorViz [3] introduces a visualization of software landscapes to support software comprehension tasks. CityVR [10] gamifies software implementations using a 3D city visualization displayed in virtual reality to boost developer engagement.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

PerfVis

Merino

Hess

Bergel

et al. 2019

Companion of the 2019 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

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Developers are usually unaware of the impact of code changes to the performance of software systems. Although developers can analyze the performance of a system by executing, for instance, a performance test to compare the performance of two consecutive versions of the system, changing from a programming task to a testing task would disrupt the development flow. In this paper, we propose the use of a city visualization that dynamically provides developers with a pervasive view of the continuous performance of a system. We use an immersive augmented reality device (Microsoft HoloLens) to display our visualization and extend the integrated development environment on a computer screen to use the physical space. We report on technical details of the design and implementation of our visualization tool, and discuss early feedback that we collected of its usability. Our investigation explores a new visual metaphor to support the exploration and analysis of possibly very large and multidimensional performance data. Our initial result indicates that the city metaphor can be adequate to analyze dynamic performance data on a large and non-trivial software system.

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“…Fittkau et al [12] presented a live visualization approach to monitor traces for large software landscapes. In [13], Fittkau et al presented ExplorViz to visualize the hierarchical abstractions of large software. The goal is supporting programming comprehension tasks.…”

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Visualizing Code Bad Smells

Hammad¹,

Alsofriya²

2019

IJACSA

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Software visualization is an effective way to support human comprehension to large software systems. In software maintenance, most of the time is spent on understanding code in order to change it. This paper presents a visualization approach to help maintainers to locate and understand code bad smells. Software maintainers need to locate and understand these bad smells in order to remove them via code refactoring. Object oriented code elements are visualized as well as their bad smells if they exist. The proposed visualization shows classes as building and bad smell as letter avatars based on the initials of the names of bad smells. These avatars are shown as warning signs on the buildings. A framework is proposed to automatically analyze code to identify bad smells and to generate the proposed visualizations. The evaluation of the proposed visualizations showed they reduce the comprehension time needed to understand bad smells.

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Software landscape and application visualization for system comprehension with ExplorViz

Cited by 43 publications

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