Context: Software visualizations can help developers to analyze multiple aspects of complex
software systems, but their effectiveness is often uncertain due to the lack of evaluation …

We report on the state-of-the-art of software visualization. To ensure reproducibility, we
adopted the Systematic Literature Review methodology. That is, we analyzed 1440 entries …

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 …

Understanding and optimizing memory usage of software applications is a difficult task,
usually involving the analysis of large amounts of memory-related complex data. Over the …

Software visualization (SV) allows us to visualize different aspects and artifacts related to
software, thus helping engineers understanding its underlying design and functionalities in a …

Software maps provide a general-purpose interactive user interface and information display
in software analytics. This paper classifies software maps as a containment-based treemap …

Software visualizations are used to support stakeholders in software engineering activities
like development, project management, and maintenance. The respective tasks determine …

Many visualizations have proven to be effective in supporting various software related tasks.
Although multiple media can be used to display a visualization, the standard computer …

Abundant studies have shown that visualization is advantageous for software developers,
yet adopting visualization during software development is not a common practice due to the …

Assessing software quality, in general, is hard; each metric has a different interpretation,
scale, range of values, or measurement method. Combining these metrics automatically is …