The Small Project Observatory: Visualizing Software Ecosystems

Lungu, Mircea; Lanza, Michele; Gîrba, Tudor; Robbes, Romain (2010). The Small Project Observatory: Visualizing Software Ecosystems. Science of computer programming, 75(4), pp. 264-275. Amsterdam: Elsevier 10.1016/j.scico.2009.09.004

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Software evolution research has focused mostly on analyzing the evolution of single software systems. However, it is rarely the case that a project exists as standalone, independent of others. Rather, projects exist in parallel within larger contexts in companies, research groups or even the open-source communities. We call these contexts software ecosystems, and on this paper we present The Small Project Observatory, a prototype tool which aims to support the analysis of project ecosystems through interactive visualization and exploration. We present a case-study of exploring an ecosystem using our tool, we describe about the architecture of the tool, and we distill the lessons learned during the tool-building experience.

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