Pub Date : 2009-11-17DOI: 10.1109/VISSOF.2009.5336430
Bonita Sharif, Jonathan I. Maletic
The results of a controlled experiment assessing the effects of different layout strategies on the comprehension of UML class diagrams of two software systems is presented. Six different categories of software comprehension tasks, with varying degrees of difficulty, are used to assess the layouts. Each task consists of several questions aimed at measuring the comprehensibility of a layout. The study involved 45 participants of varied experience in software design and programming ability. A report on the quantitative analysis of accuracy, speed, confidence level and preference of solving the tasks is given. Results indicate that clustered layouts demonstrate significant improvement in subject accuracy and speed in solving the problems in a majority of tasks.
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Pub Date : 2009-11-17DOI: 10.1109/VISSOF.2009.5336425
Philippe Moret, Walter Binder, Danilo Ansaloni, A. Villazón
Calling context profiling is an important technique for analysing the performance of object-oriented software with complex inter-procedural control flow. A common data structure is the Calling Context Tree (CCT), which stores dynamic metrics, such as CPU time, separately for each calling context. As CCTs may comprise millions of nodes, there is need for a condensed visualization that eases the location of performance bottlenecks. In this paper, we introduce Calling Context Ring Charts, a new compact visualization for CCTs, where callee methods are represented in ring segments surrounding the caller's ring segment. In order to reveal hot methods, their callers, and callees, the ring segments can be sized according to a chosen dynamic metric.
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Pub Date : 2009-11-17DOI: 10.1109/VISSOF.2009.5336423
Salima Hassaine, Karim Dhambri, H. Sahraoui, Pierre Poulin
Software visualization is an efficient and flexible tool to inspect and analyze software data at various levels of detail. However, software analysts typically do not have a sufficient background in visualization and cognitive science to select efficient representations and parameters without the help of visualization experts. To overcome this problem, we propose an approach to generate software analysis tasks that use visualization. To this end, we use taxonomies of low-level analytic tasks, high-level interactive tasks, and perceptual rules to design an assistant that proposes analysis scenarios.
{"title":"Generating visualization-based analysis scenarios from maintenance task descriptions","authors":"Salima Hassaine, Karim Dhambri, H. Sahraoui, Pierre Poulin","doi":"10.1109/VISSOF.2009.5336423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VISSOF.2009.5336423","url":null,"abstract":"Software visualization is an efficient and flexible tool to inspect and analyze software data at various levels of detail. However, software analysts typically do not have a sufficient background in visualization and cognitive science to select efficient representations and parameters without the help of visualization experts. To overcome this problem, we propose an approach to generate software analysis tasks that use visualization. To this end, we use taxonomies of low-level analytic tasks, high-level interactive tasks, and perceptual rules to design an assistant that proposes analysis scenarios.","PeriodicalId":356387,"journal":{"name":"2009 5th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127616163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1109/vissof.2009.5336427
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1109/memcod.2006.1695889
R. Gupta, J. Hoe, J. Palsberg
Bits of History. The VISSOFT series started in 2002, in Paris, and since then was held in Amsterdam (2003), Budapest (2005), and Banff (2007). This year we are again in beautiful Canada, in Edmonton, co-located with ICSM 2009 (the 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance). Since the first edition, VISSOFT (the small brother/sister of Softvis, the ACM symposium on Software Visualization) has gone from a small and specialized venue to a truly international forum, where exciting work in software visualization is discussed.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1109/vissof.2009.5336424
Jochen Quante, Jan Harder
Anbieter/Hersteller: Universität Bremen, Arbeitsgruppe Softwaretechnik Referent: Rainer Koschke, Jochen Quante Kurzbeschreibung: Bauhaus bietet einen Werkzeugkasten zur Unterstützung von Software-Evolution mit Hilfe statischer und dynamischer Analysen. Sowohl quellcodenahe als auch architekturrelevante Informationen werden extrahiert, abstrahiert und visualisiert. weitere Informationen: http://www. informatik.uni-bremen.de/st, http://www.bauhaus-stuttgart.de
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