An Ontology Based Meta-Visualization for Recommending Suitable Software Visualization. Leonel Merino

1. Leonel Merino
SCG, University of Bern
An Ontology Based Meta-Visualization
for Recommending Suitable
Software Visualization
merino@inf.unibe.ch @leonel_merinohttp://scg.unibe.ch/staff/merino

2. Research Question
How can developers find suitable
visualization to support questions that arise
during development ?
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3. Towards Actionable Visualization in Software
Development. VISSOFT’16
L.Merino,M.Ghafari,O.Nierstrasz, “Towards Actionable Visualization in Software Development,”in
VISSOFT’16: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization. IEEE, 2016, to
Appear. [Online]. Available: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Meri16a.pdf (Best paper award)
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4. Extracted Data
e.g., lviz
e.g., maintenance
e.g., wall display
e.g., dense pixel
e.g., QA Engineer
e.g., source code
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5. e.g., how are clones distributed in system
structure?
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6. e.g., refactoringe.g., refactoring
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7. MetaVis: Exploring Actionable Visualization.
VISSOFT’16
e.g.
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L.Merino,M.Ghafari,O.Nierstrasz,A.Bergel,andJ.Kubelka,“Metavis:Exploring Actionable Visualization,”in
VISSOFT’16: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization. IEEE, 2016, to
Appear. [Online]. Available: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Meri16c.pdf
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8. e.g., how various metrics relate in a software
product family?
Example
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9. Explora: A visualization Tool for Metric Analysis on
Software Corpora. VISSOFT’15
L. Merino, M. Lungu, and O. Nierstrasz, “Explora: A visualisation tool for metric analysis of software
corpora,” in VISSOFT’15: Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization.
IEEE, 2015, pp. 195–199. [Online]. Available: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Meri15b.pdf
Polygrid
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12. e.g., who is who?
Example
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13. CommunityExplorer: A Framework for Visualizing
Collaboration Networks. IWST’16
L. Merino, D. Seliner, M. Ghafari, and O. Nierstrasz, “CommunityExplorer: A framework for visualizing
collaboration networks,” in Proceedings of International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST 2016),
2016, to Appear. [Online]. Available: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Meri16b.pdf
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15. Systematic Literature Review
L.Merino,M.Ghafari,O.Nierstrasz, “Towards Actionable Visualization in Software Development,”in VISSOFT’16: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Working
Conference on Software Visualization. IEEE, 2016, to Appear. [Online]. Available: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Meri16c.pdf (Best paper award)
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16. MetaVis: Improving visualization and adding quality
metrics to the ontology.
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17. Technique: How to support hierarchy depth
analysis of extrema values in Treemaps?
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18. Technique: How support hierarchy depth analysis
in Treemaps?
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20. Summary
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merino@inf.unibe.ch @leonel_merinohttp://scg.unibe.ch/staff/merino