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Object-oriented programming: an objective sense of style
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Designing object-oriented software
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Graph drawing by force-directed placement
Software—Practice & Experience
Foundations for the study of software architecture
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Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
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The interaction of social issues and software architecture
Communications of the ACM
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Object-oriented application frameworks
Communications of the ACM
The unified software development process
The unified software development process
Information visualization: perception for design
Information visualization: perception for design
Object-Oriented Software Construction
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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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TreeMatrix: A Hybrid Visualization of Compound Graphs
Computer Graphics Forum
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Information Visualization
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EuroVis'08 Proceedings of the 10th Joint Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
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Identifying and tracking evolving software structures at a design level is a challenging task. Although there are ways to visualize this information statically, there is a need for methods that help analyzing the evolution of software design elements. In this paper, we present a new visual approach to identify variability zones in software designs and explore how they evolve over time. To verify the usefulness of our approach, we did a user study in which participants had to browse software histories and find visual patterns. Most participants were able to find interesting observations and found our approach intuitive and useful. We present a number of design aspects that were observed by participants and the authors using our IHVis tool on four open-source projects.