Special Issue: Best Papers from SEKE 2004; Guest Editors: Frank Maurer and Günther RuheNo Access

VISUALIZING THE EVOLUTION OF SOFTWARE USING SOFTCHANGE

DANIEL M. GERMAN

Software Engineering Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W3P6, Canada

Search for more papers by this author

and

ABRAM HINDLE

Software Engineering Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W3P6, Canada

Search for more papers by this author

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218194006002665Cited by:22 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

A typical software development team leaves behind a large amount of information. This information takes different forms, such as mail messages, software releases, version control logs, defect reports, etc. softChange is a tool that retrieves this information, analyses and enhances it by finding new relationships amongst it, and then allows users to navigate and visualize this information. The main objective of softChange it to help programmers, their management and software evolution researchers in understanding how a software product has evolved since its conception.

Keywords:

References

D. Cubranic and G. C. Murphy, Hipikat: Recommending pertinent software development artifacts, Proc. 2003 Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (Association for Computing Machinery, Portland, 2003) pp. 408–418. Google Scholar
M. Fischer and H. Gall , MDS-Views: Visualizing problem report data of large scale software using multidimensional scaling , International Workshop on Evolution of Large Scale Industrial Software Applications (ELISA) . Google Scholar
M. Fischer, M. Pinzger and H. Gall, Populating a release history database from version control and bug tracking systems, Proc. Int. Conf. on Software Maintenance (IEEE Computer Society Press, 2003) pp. 23–32. Google Scholar
M. Fisher and H. Gall , MDS-Views: Visualizing problem report data of large scale software using multidimensional scaling , Proc. Int. Workshop on Evolution of Large-Scale Industrial Software Applications (ELISA) . Google Scholar
D. M. German, J. Software Process: Improvement and Practice 8(4), 201 (2004). Crossref, Google Scholar
D. M. German, An empirical study of fine-grained software modifications, 20th IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Maintenance (ICSM'04) pp. 316–325. Google Scholar
D. M. German, Mining CVS repositories, the softChange experience, 1st Int. Workshop on Mining Software Repositories pp. 17–21. Google Scholar
D. M. German, J. Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice 16(6), 367 (2004). Crossref, Web of Science, Google Scholar
A. G. Gleditsch and P. K. Gjermshus, lrx Cross-Referencing Linux, http://lxr.sourceforge.net/, visited Feb. 2004 . Google Scholar
T. Hernandez, The Bonsai Project, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonsai/, visited Feb. 2004 . Google Scholar
Y. Liu and E. Stroulia, Reverse engineering the process of small novice software teams, Proc. 10th Working Conf. on Reverse Engineering (IEEE Press, 2003) pp. 102–112. Google Scholar
M. A. Storey , D. D. Čubranić and D. M. German , On the use of visualization to support awareness of human activities in software development: A survey and a framework , Proc. 2nd ACM Symposium on Software Visualization . Google Scholar
J. Wu, R. C. Holt and A. E. Hassan, Exploring software evolution using spectrographs, Proc. 11th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering pp. 80–89. Google Scholar
X. Wu, Visualization of version control information, Master's thesis, University of Victoria, 2003 . Google Scholar