DocumentCode :
3275744
Title :
A Visualization for Software Project Awareness and Evolution
Author :
Ripley, Roger M. ; Sarma, Anita ; Van der Hoek, André
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, Irvine
fYear :
2007
fDate :
24-25 June 2007
Firstpage :
137
Lastpage :
144
Abstract :
Real-time awareness of other developers´ activities is a powerful tool to assist in coordination of developer activities. Thus far, this type of awareness has focused only on individual developers, with information regarding individual artifacts provided in a contextualized visualization. Here, we build upon our prior work, but take a broader perspective: visualization and exploration of workspace activity and evolution on a project- wide basis. We believe this visualization helps project managers who now have a comprehensive view of all project activities, allowing them to intelligently steer development and adjust task assignments. Developers can also benefit from this high level view by understanding how their work relates with each other and to the project as a whole. Another interesting aspect of our work is that we can visualize the evolution of workspaces-and the emergent project evolution-either live or postmortem: since our tool stores all the workspaces´ events, we can replay, stop, rewind, and visually inspect the effort at any given point in time to find trends, problems, and other patterns of interest.
Keywords :
data visualisation; program visualisation; software development management; contextualized visualization; software project awareness; software project evolution; software tool; Context awareness; Data visualization; Forensics; Informatics; Programming; Project management; Prototypes; Scalability; Software tools; Watches;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis, 2007. VISSOFT 2007. 4th IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Banff, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0600-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0600-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/VISSOF.2007.4290712
Filename :
4290712
Link To Document :
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