Live Software Development Environment Using Virtual Reality: A Prototype and Experiment

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2020

Authors

Diogo Amaral (Author) Other; Gil Domingues (Author) Other; João Pedro Dias (Author) FEUP; Hugo Sereno Ferreira (Author) FEUP; Ademar Aguiar (Author) FEUP; Rui Nóbrega (Author) Other; Filipe Figueiredo Correia (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: EVALUATION OF NOVEL APPROACHES TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Pages: 83-107

14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE)

Heraklion, GREECE, MAY 04-05, 2019

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Authenticus ID: P-00R-P5P

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-40223-5_5

Abstract (EN): Successful software systems tend to grow considerably, ending up suffering from essential complexity, and very hard to understand as a whole. Software visualization techniques have been explored as one approach to ease software understanding. This work presents a novel approach and environment for software development that explores the use of liveness and virtual reality (VR) as a way to shorten the feedback loop between developers and their software systems in an interactive and immersive way. As a proof-of-concept, the authors developed a prototype that uses a visual city metaphor and allows developers to visit and dive into the system, in a live way. To assess the usability and viability of the approach, the authors carried on experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of the approach, and how to best support a live approach for software development.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 25