Background Software evolution is an important topic in software engineering. It generally
deals with large amounts of data, as one must look at whole project histories as opposed to …

Context Most companies, independently of their size and activity type, are facing the
problem of managing, maintaining and/or replacing (part of) their existing software systems …

Software developers spend a great deal of time reading and understanding code that is
poorly-documented, written by other developers, or developed using differing styles. During …

Software visualization approaches for code reviews are often implemented as standalone
applications, which use static code analysis. The goal is to visualize the structural changes …

Context: The number of software applications deployed in organizations is constantly
increasing. Those applications–often several hundreds–form large software landscapes …

Gamification of software engineering tasks improve developer engagement, but has been
limited to mechanisms such as points and badges. We believe that a tool that provides …

When developers use Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), they often rely on
documentation to assist their tasks. In previous studies, we reported evidence indicating that …

Context: Over the past decades, researchers proposed numerous approaches to visualize
source code. A popular one is CodeCity, an interactive 3D software visualization …

This paper presents software visualization tool that utilizes the modified city metaphor to
represent software system and related analysis data in virtual reality environment. To better …

Code review is a software development practice aimed at assessing code quality, finding
defects, and sharing knowledge among developers. Despite its wide adoption, code review …