OvERVIeW: Ownership Visualization Word Cloud

Ilenia Fronza, Stefano Trebeschi

2016

Abstract

In many situations, awareness about code ownership is important; for example, this awareness might allow to contact the responsible person(s) of a piece of code to get clarifications. Source versioning systems can provide information about code ownership. However, the considerable amount of data collected might prolong the time to retrieve the information needed. OvERVIeW addresses this issue: it collects data from a versioning system and visualizes developers’ effort using a well-known and intuitive visualization, the word cloud. We applied pre-attentive processing principles in the designing phase, which use graphical properties (e.g., form and color) that are processed pre-attentively, i.e., they are understood faster. In our visualization, each word represents a class; the number of lines added and removed (during a given time period) is used as size metric, and the color represents the developer(s) working on the code. We show how OvERVIeW can be used to visualize three different cases of code ownership: collective, weak, and strong. We report a sample application of OvERVIeW in the context of a multi-developer OSS project.

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Fronza I. and Trebeschi S. (2016). OvERVIeW: Ownership Visualization Word Cloud . In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-187-8, pages 405-412. DOI: 10.5220/0005753804050412


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@conference{iceis16,
author={Ilenia Fronza and Stefano Trebeschi},
title={OvERVIeW: Ownership Visualization Word Cloud},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2016},
pages={405-412},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005753804050412},
isbn={978-989-758-187-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - OvERVIeW: Ownership Visualization Word Cloud
SN - 978-989-758-187-8
AU - Fronza I.
AU - Trebeschi S.
PY - 2016
SP - 405
EP - 412
DO - 10.5220/0005753804050412