Conceptual graph matching: a flexible algorithm and experiments
Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: conceptual graphs workshop
Finding refactorings via change metrics
OOPSLA '00 Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Goal-driven combination of software comprehension approaches for component based development
SSR '01 Proceedings of the 2001 symposium on Software reusability: putting software reuse in context
The evolution matrix: recovering software evolution using software visualization techniques
IWPSE '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution
Future trends in software evolution metrics
IWPSE '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution
Software evolution: let's sharpen the terminology before sharpening (out-of-scope) tools
IWPSE '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution
Quantitative observations on object evolution
IWPSE '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Making Movies: Watching Software Evolve through Visualisation
ICCS '01 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science-Part II
On Architectural Stability and Evolution
Ada-Europe '02 Proceedings of the 7th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies
Dimensions of reengineering environment infrastructures
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Visualizing multiple evolution metrics
SoftVis '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Software visualization
Predicting the Probability of Change in Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software evolution: analysis and visualization
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
The evolution radar: visualizing integrated logical coupling information
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Towards an effective integrated reuse environment
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Generative programming and component engineering
Visual assessment of software evolution
Science of Computer Programming
A small observatory for super-repositories
Ninth international workshop on Principles of software evolution: in conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE joint meeting
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
Supporting the understanding of the evolution of software items
Proceedings of the 4th ACM symposium on Software visualization
A visualisation tool for the programming process
ITiCSE '09 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
An approach to software evolution based on semantic change
FASE'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Fundamental approaches to software engineering
The use of information visualization to support software configuration management
INTERACT'07 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part II
Toward a version control system for aspect oriented software
MEDI'11 Proceedings of the First international conference on Model and data engineering
Code flows: visualizing structural evolution of source code
EuroVis'08 Proceedings of the 10th Joint Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
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The data regarding the components of a software system consists of a large amount of information such as version history, number of lines, defect density, and complexity measures. The ability to quickly grasp a comprehensive view of the evolution and dependencies of such information is the key to making informed decisions about future developments of the system. Managers usually make such decision based only on expert judgement. For help in making such decisions, we can turn to the evolution history of large software systems, which contain a wealth of hidden information. Traditionally, this information is passed on through anecdotes without any supporting analytical data. This paper reports on our attempts to make such information more concrete through information visualization techniques. We present a three-dimensional visual representation for examining a system's software release history. The structure of the system is displayed by 2-D or 3-D graphs. The historical information is displayed by using time as the third dimension. Colors are used for displaying module properties and their historical changes in the system. A supporting software tool enables not only visualization but also navigation in the 3-D space to change the viewpoint, to browse system information, to find interesting patterns and to discover previously unknown relationships among system components.