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T1 Chronos: Visualizing Slices of Source-Code History.
A1 Servant-Cortés, Francisco Javier
A1 Jones, James A.
K1 Soporte lógico - Mantenimiento
K1 Programación de ordenadores
AB In this paper, we present CHRONOS—a tool that enables the querying, exploration, and discovery of historical change events to source code. Unlike traditional Revision Control-System tools, CHRONOS allows queries across any subset of the code, down to the line-level, which can potentially be contiguous or disparate, even among multiple files. In addition, CHRONOS provides change history across all historical versions (i.e., it is not limited to a pairwise “diff”). The tool implements a zoom-able user interface as a visualization of the history of the queried code to provide both a high-level view of the changes, which supports pattern recognition and discovery, and a low level view that supports semantic comprehension for tasks such as reverse engineering and identifying design rationale. In this paper, we describe use cases in which CHRONOS may be helpful, provide a motivating example to demonstrate the benefits brought by CHRONOS, and describe its visualization in detail.
PB Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34901
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34901
LA eng
NO F. Servant and J. A. Jones, "Chronos: Visualizing slices of source-code history, " 2013 First IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2013, pp. 1-4, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/VISSOFT.2013.6650547
NO National Science Foundation CCF-1116943
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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