The Metric Lens: Visualizing Metrics and Structure on Software Diagrams

  • Authors:

  • Heorhiy Byelas;Alexandru Telea

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WCRE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 15th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present the metric lens, a new visualization of method level code metrics atop UML class diagrams, which allows performing metric-metric and metric-structure correlations on large diagrams. We demonstrate an interactive visualization tool in which users can quickly specify a wide palette of analyses, based on color-mapping, scaling, and sorting metric tables on UML diagrams. We illustrate our technique and tool by a sample complexity assessment analysis of a real-world C++ software system.