Metric Evolution Maps: Multidimensional Attribute-driven Exploration of Software Repositories
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, Renato Rodrigues Oliveira da | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Vernier, Eduardo Faccin | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Rauber, Paulo Eduardo | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Comba, Joao L. D. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Minghim, Rosane | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Telea, Alexandru C. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.editor | Matthias Hullin and Marc Stamminger and Tino Weinkauf | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-10-10T08:04:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-10-10T08:04:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Understanding how software entities in a repository evolve over time is challenging, as an entity has many aspects that undergo such changes. We cast this problem in a multidimensional visualization context: First, we capture change by extracting quality metrics from all software entities in all revisions in a software repository, yielding a multidimensional time-dependent dataset. Next, we propose Metric Evolution Maps (MEMs), a new visual approach to create dynamic maps that show the similarity of entities in a revision and changes across revisions. We enrich MEMs with visual cues to show which metrics and metric values are key to formation of similar-entity patterns. Additionally, we show how entities change between revisions, and due to which metrics. We illustrate our approach by exploring changes in two real-world software repositories. | en_US |
| dc.description.sectionheaders | Exploring Trees and Time Series | |
| dc.description.seriesinformation | Vision, Modeling & Visualization | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.2312/vmv.20161343 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-03868-025-3 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | - | |
| dc.identifier.pages | 61-68 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.2312/vmv.20161343 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/vmv20161343 | |
| dc.publisher | The Eurographics Association | en_US |
| dc.title | Metric Evolution Maps: Multidimensional Attribute-driven Exploration of Software Repositories | en_US |