Visualizing the workflow of developers

ment (IDE) to develop a system at hand, by reading, understand-ing, and writing its source code. They do so by exploiting the tools and facilities provided by the IDE. This also allows them to build a mental model of the system to perform informed changes. It is however not clear how and when developers use which facility and tool, and to what extent the current services o↵ered by the IDE appropriately support the navigation. We present an approach to visualize the activities of developers within the IDE, implemented in a tool: DFlow. DFlow records all IDE interactions that occur during a development session and visualizes them through a web-based visualization platform. I