• DocumentCode
    1986704
  • Title

    DEVis: A tool for visualizing software document evolution

  • Author

    Junji Zhi ; Ruhe, Guenther

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    27-28 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    During the software development process many technical documents are produced. Such documents and their evolution history contain rich information about the development process. Analyzing these document changes may reveal regularities and anomalies which are helpful to understand the software system and its development process. In this paper, we propose DEVis, an interactive visualization tool to visualize the software documentation evolution and aid the tasks of analyzing software development process. We initially evaluated our tool using the knowledge task-based framework and discuss the challenging aspects and lessons learned during the development of DEVis.
  • Keywords
    data visualisation; interactive systems; software engineering; DEVi; document changes; evolution history; interactive visualization tool; knowledge task-based framework; software development process; software documentation evolution visualization; technical documents; Data visualization; Documentation; History; Software systems; Spirals; Visualization; Visualization of software documentations; document evolution; software documentation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Visualization (VISSOFT), 2013 First IEEE Working Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Eindhoven
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VISSOFT.2013.6650526
  • Filename
    6650526