EvolTrack: improving design evolution awareness in software development

@article{Cepda2010EvolTrackID,
  title={EvolTrack: improving design evolution awareness in software development},
  author={Rafael da Silva Viterbo de Cep{\^e}da and Andr{\'e}a Magalh{\~a}es Magdaleno and Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta and Cl{\'a}udia Maria Lima Werner},
  journal={Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society},
  year={2010},
  volume={16},
  pages={117-131}
}
Software differs from most manufactured products because it is intangible. This characteristic makes it difficult to detect, control, and understand how it evolves. This paper presents an approach based on software visualization that can detect and externalize design evolution made in a software project during its initial development or at any further phase. By using this approach, a developer can be aware of the current state of the software as a whole and can additionally verify if the… 
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Software Evolution Visualization: Status, Challenges, and Research Directions
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This chapter discusses the current state of the art and challenges in software evolution visualization, presenting issues and problems related to the area, and they propose some solutions and recommendations to circumvent them.
Context-Awareness on Software Artifacts in Distributed Software Development: A Systematic Review
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A systematic review identifying papers in the current literature that address acquisition and presentation techniques of contextual information when software artifacts are generated or updated in DSD.
Supporting distributed software development through context awareness on software artifacts: the DiSEN-CollaborAR approach
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This paper presents the DiSEN-CollaborAR, an approach to deal with context awareness on software artifacts, which provides resources to communicate what individuals have done over the software artifacts.
Improving Coordination and Communication in Distributed Software Development through Context-Based Software Artifacts Awareness: A Controlled Experiment
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It was found that the proposed approach directly influences the time taken to carry out the tasks of class diagrams and source code in DSD and offers adequate support for context awareness on software artifacts, thereby contributing for distributed software development mainly on coordination and communication between distributed teams.
Analyzing Collaboration in Software Development Processes through Social Networks
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This work studied several tools and identified the requirements necessary to explore collaboration, through social networks, in software development processes and motivated the construction of EvolTrack-SocialNetwork tool.
Awareness Support in Distributed Software Development: A Systematic Review and Mapping of the Literature
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A systematic literature review and mapping showed that the coordination is by far the most supported dimension of the 3C model, while communication is the less explored, and showed that workspace awareness elements play a central role on DSD collaboration.
Programmer eXperience: A Systematic Literature Review
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A systematic literature review of papers published over the last ten years related to the definition of the Programmer eXperience (PX) and the PX, UX, and usability factors regarding the programming environments, design documents, and programming codes suggests that further research in this area is necessary.
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A Study on the Application of the PREViA Approach in Modeling Education
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The use of the PREViA approach, which aims at visualizing software architecture models, is presented, which focuses on supporting teaching and learning in the modeling education context.
Méthodologie d'évaluation pour les types de données répliqués. (Evaluation methodology for replicated data types)
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Les algorithmes de réplication optimiste que nous allons étudier sont des algorithmes destinés à être implémentés sur des systèmes de Réplication réels, en plus, le corpus sur lequel nos allons mener nos expérimentations sont réelles.
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