Towards actionable visualization for software developers

Towards actionable visualization for software developers

Abundant studies have shown that visualization is advantageous for software developers, yet adopting visualization during software development is not a common practice due to the large effort involved in finding an appropriate visualization. Developers require support to facilitate that task. Among 368 papers in SOFTVIS/VISSOFT venues, we identify 86 design study papers about the application of...

Towards Software Excellence - Informal Self-Assessment for Software Developers

“Towards Software Excellence” (TSE) is a web-based process assessment facility established by the UK’s National Computing Centre (NCC). TSE provides software developers with a simple and easy-to-use means of self-assessing the capability of their development processes. They can understand the “good practice” expected by TSE, compare their processes against TSE’s process model, identify their "s...

Towards Improving the Mental Model of Software Developers through Cartographic Visualization

Software is intangible and knowledge about software systems is typically tacit. The mental model of software developers is thus an important factor in software engineering. It is our vision that developers should be able to refer to code as being “up in the north”, “over in the west”, or “down-under in the south”. We want to provide developers, and everyone else involved in software development...

Actionable Analytics for Software Engineering

Towards Coordination-intensive Visualization Software

Introduction Most coordination realizations in current visualization systems are “last-minute” adhoc and rely on the richness of the chosen implementation language. Moreover, very few visualization models implicitly consider coordination. If coordination is contemplated from the design point of view, it is usually only regarded as part of the communication protocol and is generally dealt with w...