Towards recovering and maintaining trace links for model sketches across interactive displays

Kleffmann, Markus; Book, Matthias; Gruhn, Volker

doi:10.1109/tefse.2013.6620150

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“…These artifacts are displayed in separate windows that float above the diagram and can be resized and moved around freely. By applying a combination of prospective and retrospective traceability techniques, the AugIR can propose potentially interesting artifacts that might be relevant for the currently displayed content [29]. Moreover, it enables users to enrich elements with additional data, e.g.…”

Section: The Augmented Interaction Roommentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When storing the diagrams in a VCS revision, we strictly distinguish between the semantic content of a diagram and its layout. It has been argued [29] id timestamp changeType uncertainty value effort changeFrequency impact ... that the XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) format [39] is a good choice for storing the semantic data, while the Diagram Definition (DD) specification [38] can be used for saving the layouts. Both are standard formats, created by the Object Management Group.…”

Section: Automated Context Storagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In those cases, the intermediate steps are irrelevant and only the original and final state are important. This behavior is implemented by logging all user activities [29] and temporarily keeping all changes in memory. At certain points (when a certain time interval passes without changes, or when the series of layout changes is broken by a content change), the AugIR decides which of the cached changes should be saved as a new snapshot and which can be discarded as intermediate changes.…”

Section: Automated Context Storagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…when multiple attributes within a local class are renamed subsequently. A combination of various traceability techniques can be applied to forecast the impact of changes [29]. By distinguishing the above cases, we can significantly reduce the amount of snapshots a priori.…”

Section: Automated Context Storagementioning

confidence: 99%

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Automated versioning and temporal navigation for model sketches on large interactive displays

Kleffmann

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Hebisch

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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The development of complex software systems requires the collaboration and mutual understanding of stakeholders from various backgrounds, which is usually facilitated by joint design of complex graphical models. To support this collaboration, we introduce the concept of a so-called "Augmented Interaction Room" that is equipped with large interactive wall displays, each dedicated to a particular modeling perspective. These models evolve significantly over the project life-cycle as uncertainties are resolved and design decisions are made. Our focus in this paper is to help stakeholders obtain a clearer view of the models' evolution and past design rationales, without incurring significant cognitive effort for navigating a potentially very long and detailed model revision history. For this purpose, we describe mechanisms for storing the history of the continuously evolving models, and methods for temporal navigation that semi-automatically identify particularly relevant past model versions.

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Section: The Augmented Interaction Roommentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Automated Context Storagementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Automated Context Storagementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Automated Context Storagementioning

confidence: 99%

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Automated versioning and temporal navigation for model sketches on large interactive displays

Kleffmann

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Hebisch

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Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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“…These so-called trace links are created mostly automatically by using a combination of prospective and retrospective traceability techniques, as described in our earlier work [28].…”

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Supporting collaboration of heterogeneous teams in an augmented team room

Kleffmann

Book

Gruhn

2014

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering

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It is often difficult for a team of stakeholders with heterogeneous backgrounds to maintain a common understanding of a system's structure and the challenges in its implementation. Thus, especially in complex software projects, risks and inconsistencies are easily overlooked. In this paper, we present the concept of an Augmented Interaction Room (AugIR), i.e. a physical team room whose walls are outfitted with wall-sized touchscreens that visualize different aspects of a software system in the form of various model sketches. These sketches can be annotated by the stakeholders in order to explicitly mark important elements or indicate aspects that are critical for project success. The AugIR strives to support the collaborative work of heterogeneous teams and especially targets the inclusion of non-technical stakeholders into the communication process. Therefore, the AugIR continuously monitors the stakeholders' design and modeling activities and analyzes the relationships between annotated contents to automatically uncover inconsistencies, contradictions and hidden potential project risks.

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