The Small Project Observatory: Visualizing software ecosystems |
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Authors: | Mircea Lungu Michele Lanza |
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Affiliation: | a REVEAL @ Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Switzerland b Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | Software evolution research has focused mostly on analyzing the evolution of single software systems. However, it is rarely the case that a project exists as standalone, independent of others. Rather, projects exist in parallel within larger contexts in companies, research groups or even the open-source communities. We call these contexts software ecosystems. In this paper, we present the Small Project Observatory, a prototype tool which aims to support the analysis of software ecosystems through interactive visualization and exploration. We present a case study of exploring an ecosystem using our tool, we describe the architecture of the tool, and we distill lessons learned during the tool-building experience. |
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Keywords: | Software evolution Software visualization Software ecosystems Reverse engineering Maintenance |
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