1. SeeSoft
A Visualization Tool.

2. Topics for discussion:
Why was the software developed?
What data does it Visualizes?
How does it visualize the data? (What are the key features?)
Where are some of its uses?
Some field experience.
What are it’s short comings?

3. Why was the System Developed ?

4. To understand the line level statistics collected from tools like
Version Control Systems.
Change Management Systems.
Static Analyzers.
Dynamic Analyzers.

5. So what data does SeeSoft visualize?

6. Source code and control
data and text meta data
file and function size
access history bug locations and fixes
Code data and structure
data structures, data flow, code profiles, function call graphs
Code execution
data and algorithm animation, communication and message passing, control flow, memory and resource utilization
Code and Human interaction process
software development process (code, developers, users)

7. How does it represents all that data?
(What are the key features)

8. The 4 key-ideas are
Reduced Representation
Coloring by Statistics
Direct Manipulation
Capability to read actual code

10. What are the different measuring statistics used?.
What are the different measuring statistics used?
Age
Programmer
Number of times the line was executed.
Modification Request.

11. Uses??

12. We can know things like age of the file.
The age of the code.
When each file was last changed.
When each code was last changed
Which code was added as a result of what MR.
Which files have been changed most often.
And what files are being modified the most as a result of the bug fixing MRs.
Who did what, where and when

13. Applications: Code discovery New developer training Project management
Quality assurance and system testing
Software analysis and archeological studies
Code coverage analysis
Code execution optimization

14. Some field experiences :
Favorable Responses.
To gain Familiarity
Change control
Balance of Load
System development

15. What are the new application areas that are being considered ?
Display of large amount of Texts.
Visualization of Directories and files.

16. What are the limitations of this system ?
Only 50,000 lines of code can be displayed
Difficult to use with the monochrome devices

17. HCI Metrics Fairly easy to learn. Easy to use. User satisfaction?
Highly Retentive.
Error – recovery is easy.

18. Any Questions?

19. Thanks
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