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Using EVOWAVE to Analyze Software Evolution

Authors:

Rodrigo Magnavita,

Renato Novais,

Manoel MendonçaAuthors Info & Claims

ICEIS 2015: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2

Pages 126 - 136

https://doi.org/10.5220/0005373901260136

Published: 27 April 2015 Publication History

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Software evolution produces large amounts of data which software engineers need to understand for their

daily activities. The use of software visualization constitutes a promising approach to help them comprehend

multiple aspects of the evolving software. However, portraying all the data is not an easy task as there are

many dimensions to the data (e.g. time, files, properties) to be considered. This paper presents a new software

visualization metaphor inspired by concentric waves, which gives information about the software evolution

in different levels of detail. This new metaphor is able to portray large amount of data and may also be

used to consider different dimensions of the data. It uses the concepts of the formation of concentric waves

to map software evolution data generated during the waves formation life cycle. The metaphor is useful for

exploring and identifying certain patterns in the software evolution. To evaluate its applicability, we conducted

an exploratory study to show how the visualization can quickly answer different questions asked by software

engineers when evolving their software.

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Using EVOWAVE to Analyze Software Evolution
1. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Enterprise information systems

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ICEIS 2015: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2

April 2015

720 pages

ISBN:9789897580970

Editors:
Slimane Hammoudi
ESEO, MODESTE
,
Leszek Maciaszek
Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland and Macquarie University, Sydney
,
Ernest Teniente
Polytechnic University of Catalonia

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SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda

Setubal, Portugal

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Published: 27 April 2015

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