Context: Agile software companies applying the DevOps approach require collaboration and
information sharing between practitioners in various roles to produce value. Adopting new …

We report on the state-of-the-art of software visualization. To ensure reproducibility, we
adopted the Systematic Literature Review methodology. That is, we analyzed 1440 entries …

Several usability issues (ie, navigation, occlusion, selection, and text readability) affect the
few 3D visualizations proposed to support developers on software engineering tasks. We …

Program comprehension is a fundamental prerequisite for software maintenance and
evolution. In order to understand a software structure, developers often read its codebase or …

Developers are usually unaware of the impact of code changes to the performance of
software systems. Although developers can analyze the performance of a system by …

Two separate schools of thought to measure software engineers' productivity have
coexisted: for a long time: on the one hand, using automated product or process measures …

Although many tools have been presented in the research literature of software
visualization, there is little evidence of their adoption. To choose a suitable visualization tool …

We report on the development of react-bratus, a prototype providing developers with an
interactive web-based component hierarchy visualization for React-based projects. We …

GitHub hosts millions of software repositories, facilitating developers to contribute to many
projects in multiple ways. Most of the information about the repositories is text-based in the …

Although abundant studies have shown how visualization can help software developers to
understand software systems, visualization is still not a common practice since developers …