White Coats: Web-Visualization of Evolving Software in 3D

Author

Mesnage, C. ; Lanza, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. d´informatique, Univ. de Caen

fYear

2005

fDate

25-25 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Versioning systems to store, handle, and retrieve the evolution of software systems have become a common good practice for both industrial and open-source software systems, currently exemplified by the wide usage of the CVS system. The stored information can then be manually retrieved over a command line or looked at with a browser using the ViewCVS tool. However, the information contained in the repository is difficult to navigate as ViewCVS provides only a textual view of single versions of the source files. In this paper we present an approach to visualize a CVS repository in 3D (using VRML) by means of a visualization service called White Coats. The viewer can easily navigate and interact with the visualized information

Keywords

Internet; computer graphics; configuration management; information retrieval; program visualisation; software maintenance; virtual reality languages; 3D Web-visualization; CVS repository 3D visualization; CVS system; VRML; ViewCVS tool; White Coats; industrial software systems; information retrieval; open-source software systems; software systems evolution; versioning systems; Computer industry; Engineering management; History; Information retrieval; Navigation; Open source software; Programming; Software systems; Visualization; Web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis, 2005. VISSOFT 2005. 3rd IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9540-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISSOF.2005.1684302

Filename

1684302