Software developers explore and inspect software repository data to obtain detailed information archived in the development history. However, developers who are not acquainted with the development context suffer from delving into the repositories with a handful of information; they have difficulty discovering and expanding information fragments considering the topological and sequential multi-dimensional structure of repositories. We introduce ExIF, an interactive visualization for exploring information fragments in software repositories. ExIF helps users discover new information fragments within clusters or topological neighbors and identify revisions incorporating user-collected fragments.
翻译:软件开发商探索和检查软件储存库数据,以获取开发史上存档的详细信息。然而,不熟悉开发背景的开发商在以少量信息进入存储库时会遇到困难;考虑到存储库的地形和顺序多维结构,他们难以发现和扩大信息碎片。我们引入了ExIF,这是在软件储存库中探索信息碎片的一种互动可视化。ExIF帮助用户在组群或表面邻居中发现新的信息碎片,并识别包含用户收集的碎片的修改。