Context: The software industry has sought to apply User eXperience (UX) practices that can
help maintain a sustainable business. UX practices make it possible to conduct research …

During the life cycle of a software system, the source code is changed many times. We study
how developers can be enabled to get insight in these changes, in order to understand the …

Interrupted and blocked tasks are a daily reality for professional programmers.
Unfortunately, the strategies programmers use to recover lost knowledge and rebuild context …

At ICSE 2010, the Code Bubbles team from Brown University and the Code Canvas team
from Microsoft Research presented similar ideas for new user experiences for an integrated …

Information Foraging Theory (IFT) has established itself as an important theory to explain
how people seek information, but most work has focused more on the theory itself than on …

The Eclipse platform presents an opportunity to openly collaborate and share visualization
tools amongst the research community and with developers. In this paper, we present our …

We present MetricView, a software visualization and exploration tool that combines
traditional UML diagram visualization with metric visualization in an effective way …

Many program comprehension tools use graphs to visualize and analyze source code. The
main issue is that existing approaches create graphs overloaded with too much information …

We present the Visual Code Navigator, a set of three interrelated visual tools that we
developed for exploring large source code software projects from three different …

Most traditional reverse engineering tools focus on abstraction and analysis of source code,
presenting a visual representation of the software architecture. This approach can be both …