WorkItemExplorer: Visualizing software development tasks using an interactive exploration environment

Author

Treude, Christoph ; Gorman, Patrick ; Grammel, Lars ; Storey, Margaret-Anne

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

2-9 June 2012

Firstpage

1399

Lastpage

1402

Abstract

This demo introduces WorkItemExplorer, an interactive environment to visually explore data from software development tasks. WorkItemExplorer enables developers and managers to investigate activity and correlations in their task management system by making data exploration flexible and interactive, and by utilizing multiple coordinated views. Our preliminary evaluation shows that WorkItemExplorer is able to answer questions that developers ask, while also enabling them to gain new insights through the free exploration of data.

Keywords

data visualisation; interactive systems; software development management; task analysis; WorkItemExplorer; data exploration; data visualization; interactive exploration environment; software developer; software development task; software manager; task management system; Bars; Data visualization; Heating; Programming; Software engineering; Usability; coordinated views; task management; visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering (ICSE), 2012 34th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zurich

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1066-6

Electronic_ISBN

0270-5257

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227238

Filename

6227238