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Assessing SeeIT 3D, A Software Visualization Tool
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Gadapa, Shalini
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1342116578
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2012, Master of Computing and Information Systems, Youngstown State University, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems.
Abstract
Software is inherently complex. This is especially true for large open-source systems. Over the past two decades there has been a number of software visualization tools proposed in the literature. The main idea behind creating a software visualization tool is to help a developer or maintainer comprehend the system at different levels of abstraction. Most of the tools have focused on creating elaborate and pretty looking visualizations. There have not been many cases where a tool is systematically empirically validated to make sure that it is really useful to a developer. This thesis tries to bridge this gap between the tool and its empirical validation by assessing one such software visualization tool, SeeIT 3D. Sixteen different tasks are developed in the context of understanding an open-source system, JFreeChart, written in Java. Ten subjects were recruited and an observational study was performed. The main goal was to determine the effectiveness of SeeIT 3D while performing typical software tasks when using the visualization within the Eclipse IDE. Results and observations are presented. These results will be provided as feedback to the tool developers, who may use it in further improving SeeIT 3D.
Committee
Bonita Sharif, PhD (Advisor)
John Sullins, PhD (Committee Member)
Yong Zhang, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
78 p.
Subject Headings
Computer Science
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Information Systems
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Information Technology
Keywords
visualization tool
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visualizing JFreeChart in SeeIT 3D
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SeeIT 3D metaphor
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polycylinders (visual type relations)
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Gadapa, S. (2012).
Assessing SeeIT 3D, A Software Visualization Tool
[Master's thesis, Youngstown State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1342116578
APA Style (7th edition)
Gadapa, Shalini.
Assessing SeeIT 3D, A Software Visualization Tool.
2012. Youngstown State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1342116578.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Gadapa, Shalini. "Assessing SeeIT 3D, A Software Visualization Tool." Master's thesis, Youngstown State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1342116578
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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