Title : 
The small project observatory: a tool for reverse engineering software ecosystems
         
        
            Author : 
Lungu, Mircea ; Lanza, Michele
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
REVEAL, Univ. of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Software evolution researchers have focused mostly on analyzing single software systems. However, often projects are developed and co-exist within software ecosystems, i.e., the larger contexts of companies, research groups or open-source communities. We present The Small Project Observatory, a web-based analysis platform for ecosystem reverse engineering through interactive visualization and exploration.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Internet; reverse engineering; software maintenance; software tools; Small Project Observatory; Web-based analysis platform; ecosystem reverse engineering; interactive visualization; software ecosystem; software evolution; software tool; Collaboration; Context; Ecosystems; Observatories; Reverse engineering; Software; Visualization; mining software repositories; software ecosystems; software evolution; software visualization;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Software Engineering, 2010 ACM/IEEE 32nd International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Cape Town
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-60558-719-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1145/1810295.1810356