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
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