The Research Group is Moving!

During winter term 2021/22, we move to University of Bamberg. From Oct. 15, 2021, Fabian Beck holds a full professor position on Information Visualization.

New webpage of the research group: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/vis

Publications

Publications of the research group since 2016. For earlier publications, please visit Fabian Beck's Google Scholar or DBLP profile.

Detecting Bad Smells in Software Systems with Linked Multivariate Visualizations

Type of Publication: Article in Collected Edition

Detecting Bad Smells in Software Systems with Linked Multivariate Visualizations

Author(s):
Mumtaz, Haris; Beck, Fabian; Weiskopf, Daniel
Title of Anthology:
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization
pages:
12-20
Publisher:
IEEE
Publication Date:
2018
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):
doi:10.1109/VISSOFT.2018.00010
Fulltext:
Detecting Bad Smells in Software Systems with Linked Multivariate Visualizations (3.44 MB)
Citation:
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Abstract

Parallel coordinates plots and RadViz are two visualization techniques that deal with multivariate data. They complement each other in identifying data patterns, clusters, and outliers. In this paper, we analyze multivariate software metrics linking the two approaches for detecting outliers, which could be the indicators for bad smells in software systems. Parallel coordinates plots provide an overview, whereas the RadViz representation allows for comparing a smaller subset of metrics in detail. We develop an interactive visual analytics system supporting automatic detection of bad smell patterns. In addition, we investigate the distinctive properties of outliers that are not considered harmful, but noteworthy for other reasons. We demonstrate our approach with open source Java systems and describe detected bad smells and other outlier patterns.