Visualizing Software Metrics with Service-Oriented Mining Software Repository for Reviewing Personal Process

We have proposed a framework named SO-MSR: service-oriented mining software repository, which applied service oriented architecture to MSR. Following the SO-MSR, we have developed a web service, named MetricsWebAPI, for metrics calculation from a variety of software repositories and a variety source codes. In this paper, we develop and propose Metrics Viewer, which is client of Metrics Viewer and is a web application to support personal process improvement. Metrics Viewer provides an interactive user interface for repository file exploring. Moreover the Metrics Viewer visualizes change of source code metrics to support overhead view of personal process. End user can improve their development activities based on software repository data without MSR specific knowledge by using Metrics Viewer. We have conducted a pilot study to evaluate the effect of proposed system for personal process improvement.