Interactive Visualization for Exploring Information Fragments in Software Repositories
This addresses a domain-specific problem for software developers by providing a tool to improve exploration of repository data, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing visualization techniques.
The paper tackles the problem of software developers struggling to explore and discover information fragments in software repositories due to their complex structure, and introduces ExIF, an interactive visualization tool that helps users discover new fragments and identify revisions, though no concrete performance numbers are provided.
Software developers explore and inspect software repository data to obtain detailed information archived in the development history. However, developers who are not acquainted with the development context suffer from delving into the repositories with a handful of information; they have difficulty discovering and expanding information fragments considering the topological and sequential multi-dimensional structure of repositories. We introduce ExIF, an interactive visualization for exploring information fragments in software repositories. ExIF helps users discover new information fragments within clusters or topological neighbors and identify revisions incorporating user-collected fragments.