NDLI: eCITY+: A Tool to Analyze Software Architectural Relations through Interactive Visual Support

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Liggesmeyer, Peter Khan, Taimur Humayoun, Shah Rukh Amrhein, Karsten Barthel, Henning Ebert, Achim
Abstract	Current tools to analyze software architecture structure and its evolution tend to focus more towards exploring the architectural elements, their quality measures, and their evolution as compared to the information contained in the inter-dependencies of the system itself. In this tool demo paper, we present our eCITY+ tool that provides an interactive visualization aimed at assisting software engineers and architects to additionally comprehend the architectural ties between software components. Further, it shows how these relations evolve over time. To achieve these goals, eCITY+ represents architectural relationships as hierarchical edge bundles on top of an evolving software city metaphor and unravels the evolution of these relations through the use of animations. Additionally, we present a discussion on the challenges while implementing these ideas in the large.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	4
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450327787
DOI	10.1145/2642803.2642839
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-08-25
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Software architectural visualization Software evolution Reverse engineering Software dependencies
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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eCITY+: A Tool to Analyze Software Architectural Relations through Interactive Visual Support