The Small Project Observatory: Visualizing software ecosystems

The Small Project Observatory: Visualizing software ecosystems

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 ...

The Small Project Observatory

Maintenance is an important activity in software engineering with studies attributing it more than 75% of the total cost of a system. More than half the time dedicated to maintenance is spent on reverse engineering the code which often is the only accurate source of information. In this context, among the many approaches, software visualization tools have long been seen as an important asset to...

Visualizing Software Ecosystems as Living Cities

Inter-Project Dependenciesin Java Software Ecosystems

Understanding the legacy of code in a software ecosystem is critical for the organization that is the owner of the ecosystem as well as for individual developers that work on particular systems in the ecosystem. Model driven development (MDD) and model driven architecture (MDA) techniques for describing inter-project dependencies are rarely used or they're not updated by anyone during software ...

Invited paper: EcoSysNetworks: A Method for Visualizing Software Ecosystems

This paper summarized the keynote talk on ecosystems delivered at the 4 Software Ecosystems Workshop. We outline a methodology that was used to generate many interesting ecosystems for companies.