Visual analytics of software structure and metrics

Abstract

In terms of software maintenance and comprehension, the fields of software engineering and software visualization have produced several methods and tools. However, they are typically separate tools in practice. In this paper, we present a novel methodology of combining software analysis and software visualization tools via an interactive visual workflow modeling approach. Standard software analysis tools are also limited in that they support only well-known metrics or are too complicated to use for generating custom software metrics. To address these shortcomings, our approach focuses on visual elements, their configurations, and interconnectivity rather than a data ontology and querying language. In order to test and validate our methodology, we developed a prototype tool called VIMETRIK (Visual Specification of Metrics). Our preliminary evaluation study illustrates the intuitiveness and ease-of-use of our approach with regard to understanding software measurement and analysis data

Towards an Open Source Stack to Create a Unified Data Source for Software Analysis and Visualization

“…The provided views aid developers to decrease the required time for deciding where to toggle a break-point and locate bug causes. VIMETRIK (Visual Specification of Metrics) [16] is an interactive visual data exploration and data-mining tool to create software metrics. The aggregated data is then visualized using suitable views provided by KNIME [17].…”

Uniquifying Architecture Visualization through Variable 3D Model Generation

“…When exploring large-scale code bases, e.g., to rediscover the design of a legacy system, visualization, esp. of structural system aspects, is essential for gaining an overview of a system's architecture [6,11]. However, existing software visualization [1,8,10,17,28] is hampered by a pivotal problem: The structural visualizations of different parts of a software system are hard to differentiate due to repetitive and complex patterns in the visual representation that cannot easily be distinguished (see Figure 1).…”

Visualização De Texto Minerado Para Extração De Requisitos

“…Para a avaliação da estratégia, com foco no software, foi executado uma avaliação que mostra o potencial da abordagem para agilizar a obtenção de conhecimentos por parte do engenheiro de requisitos. (KHAN et al, 2015;LEITE, 2007). O processo de desenvolvimento desses produtos pode ser bem-sucedido com um bom entendimento, nas etapas iniciais, do contexto e do domínio onde o software vai ser usado e das necessidades próprias dos usuários que farão uso dele.…”