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code_swarm: A Design Study in Organic Software Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
CVSgrab: mining the history of large software projects
EUROVIS'06 Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Visualization
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EuroVis'08 Proceedings of the 10th Joint Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
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This paper presents a technique for visualizing the interactions between developers in software project evolution. The goal is to produce a visualization that shows more detail than animated software histories, like code_swarm [15], but keeps the same focus on aesthetics and presentation. Our software evolution storylines technique draws inspiration from XKCD's "Movie Narrative Charts" and the aesthetic design of metro maps. We provide the algorithm, design choices, and examine the results of using the storylines technique. Our conclusion is that the it is able to show more details when compared to animated software project history videos. However, it does not scale to the largest projects, such as Eclipse and Mozilla.