Assistants

The development of a software system is a long and complicated process: Analyzing the evolution of a software system helps to reconstruct the story of a project, which can help to understand the software itself and how it was developed. Visualization can be a useful technique to depict this story by reducing the amount of information needed to under-stand software development processes. In this bachelor project we present two tools: Peaksight and Mr.Bubbly. We developed them with the goal to create effective visualizations of data from commits, emails, and bugs. Using these visualizations we are able to tell the story of how a software system evolved over time with the goal of using this knowledge to better understand the history and the evolution of the software. We created two different type of visualizations: one static in Peaksight and one animated in Mr.Bubbly. We create a story seen from different perspectives, which combined creates a more complete vision