On Designing an Experiment to Evaluate a Reverse Engineering Tool

Authors:
M.-A. D. Storey;K. Wong;H. A. Mueller;P. Fong;D. Hooper;K. Hopkins
Affiliations:
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Venue:
WCRE '96 Proceedings of the 3rd Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE '96)
Year:
1996

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Abstract

The Rigi reverse engineering system is designed to analyze and summarize the structure of large software systems. Two contrasting approaches are available for visualizing software structures in the Rigi graph editor. The first approach displays the structures through multiple, individual windows. The second approach, Simple Hierarchical Multi-Perspective (SHriMP) views, employs fisheye views of nested graphs. This paper describes the design of an experiment to evaluate these alternative user interfaces. Various results from a preliminary pilot study to test the experiment design are reported.