Exploration of Component Diagrams with Multifocal Highlighting

Ladislav Cmolik, Lukas Holy

2016

Abstract

In the paper we present multifocal highlighting in reverse engineered component diagrams to support software engineers in answering questions on relations between a number of components. With component oriented systems such questions arise quite often. We use color to highlight all components relevant to selected focus components. Further, we allow the users to filter the diagram. Our approach, unlike the state-of-the-art methods allows analysis of relations between dozens of components. We have performed an user study to evaluate our multifocal highlighting. The results of the subjective evaluation show that the multifocal highlighting supports software engineers in answering questions on relations between components.

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Cmolik L. and Holy L. (2016). Exploration of Component Diagrams with Multifocal Highlighting . In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-175-5, pages 146-152. DOI: 10.5220/0005781301460152


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@conference{ivapp16,
author={Ladislav Cmolik and Lukas Holy},
title={Exploration of Component Diagrams with Multifocal Highlighting},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={146-152},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005781301460152},
isbn={978-989-758-175-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)
TI - Exploration of Component Diagrams with Multifocal Highlighting
SN - 978-989-758-175-5
AU - Cmolik L.
AU - Holy L.
PY - 2016
SP - 146
EP - 152
DO - 10.5220/0005781301460152