Supporting the evolution of a software visualization tool through usability studies

被引：19
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作者：
Marcus, A [1 ]
Cornorski, D [1 ]
Sergeyev, A [1 ]
机构：
[1] Wayne State Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Detroit, MI USA
来源：
13TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PROGRAM COMPREHENSION, PROCEEDINGS | 2005年
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D O I：
10.1109/WPC.2005.34
中图分类号：
TP31 [计算机软件];
学科分类号：
081202 ; 0835 ;
摘要：
The paper presents a usability study conducted with graduate and undergraduate computer science students, designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a software visualization tool named sv3D, and to provide necessary user data for the evolution of the system. SOD is a software visualization tool for comprehension of large software, capable of displaying source code and associated metrics in three dimensions. The participants in the study answered two types of questions: one set provided objective measurements to support the formulated hypotheses with respect to the accuracy and speed of the users answering questions using sv3D; the second set of questions provided subjective measurements that were used to support the evolution of sv3D. We formulated two null hypotheses with respect to accuracy and time respectively. The collected data supported one hypothesis and rejected the other.
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页码：307 / 316
页数：10
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