{"title":"Code review tool for Visual Programming Languages","authors":"Giuliano Ragusa, Henrique Henriques","doi":"10.1109/VLHCC.2018.8506527","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Code review is a common practice in the software industry, in contexts spanning from open to close source, and from free to proprietary software. Modern code reviews are essentially conducted using cloud-based dedicated tools. Existing review tools focus in textual code. In contrast, support of low-code software languages, namely Visual Programming Languages (VPLs), is not readily available. This presents a challenge for the effectiveness of the review process with a VPL. This showpiece will present VPLreviewer, a code review tool for VPLs. VPLreviewer provides a wide range of mechanisms previously not available to a VPL. It is expected to improve of communication among the stakeholders who have to review artifacts constructed with VPLs, with mechanisms that are easy to learn, use and understand.","PeriodicalId":444336,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2018 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2018.8506527","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Code review is a common practice in the software industry, in contexts spanning from open to close source, and from free to proprietary software. Modern code reviews are essentially conducted using cloud-based dedicated tools. Existing review tools focus in textual code. In contrast, support of low-code software languages, namely Visual Programming Languages (VPLs), is not readily available. This presents a challenge for the effectiveness of the review process with a VPL. This showpiece will present VPLreviewer, a code review tool for VPLs. VPLreviewer provides a wide range of mechanisms previously not available to a VPL. It is expected to improve of communication among the stakeholders who have to review artifacts constructed with VPLs, with mechanisms that are easy to learn, use and understand.