@inproceedings{ddbe8e1abb184279836ed90fce36d1e7,
title = "Metric evolution maps: Multidimensional attribute-driven exploration of software repositories",
abstract = "Understanding how software entities in a repository evolve over time is challenging, as an entity has many aspects that undergo such changes. We cast this problem in a multidimensional visualization context: First, we capture change by extracting quality metrics from all software entities in all revisions in a software repository, yielding a multidimensional time-dependent dataset. Next, we propose Metric Evolution Maps (MEMs), a new visual approach to create dynamic maps that show the similarity of entities in a revision and changes across revisions. We enrich MEMs with visual cues to show which metrics and metric values are key to formation of similar-entity patterns. Additionally, we show how entities change between revisions, and due to which metrics. We illustrate our approach by exploring changes in two real-world software repositories. c 2016 The Author(s) Eurographics Proceedingsc 2016 The Eurographics Association.",
author = "\{Da Silva\}, \{R. R.O.\} and Vernier, \{E. F.\} and Rauber, \{P. E.\} and Comba, \{J. L.D.\} and R. Minghim and Telea, \{A. C.\}",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.2312/vmv.20161343",
language = "English",
series = "VMV 2016 - Vision, Modeling and Visualization",
publisher = "Eurographics Association",
pages = "61--68",
editor = "Dieter Fellner",
booktitle = "VMV 2016 - Vision, Modeling and Visualization",
address = "Switzerland",
note = "21st International Symposium on Vision, Modeling and Visualization, VMV 2016 ; Conference date: 10-10-2016 Through 12-10-2016",
}