SeeSoft

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SeeSoft A Visualization Tool.
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• 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 its short comings?

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Why was the System Developed ?
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• To understand the line level statistics collected
  from tools like
• Version Control Systems.
• Change Management Systems.
• Static Analyzers.
• Dynamic Analyzers.

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So what data does SeeSoft visualize?
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• 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)

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How does it represents all that data? (What are
the key features)
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• The 4 key-ideas are
• Reduced Representation
• Coloring by Statistics
• Direct Manipulation
• Capability to read actual code

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

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Uses??
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• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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Any Questions?
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Thanks ? (Phew !!!!)