CODE EVOLUTION ANIMATOR
EEL 6883 Software Engineering II
Spring 2010
Joan Baldriche
OUTLINE
Motivation
 Problem Statement
 Proposed Solution
 Major Components
 Design
 Tools
 Milestones
 Progress
 Difficulties
 Questions and Suggestions
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MOTIVATION
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Software visualization is concerned with the static or
animated visual representation of information about
software systems based on their structure, history, or
behavior.
The purpose of software visualization is to support
the understanding of software systems architecture
and algorithms.
Software projects could be hard to visualize due to
their complexity and size.
Visualization will show the direct relationship of a
class and its methods with other classes in the
software system and mark potential quality defects to
warn the developer during development.
A further benefit is the support for visual navigation
through the software system.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
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Need to create an application that will allow the
user to visualize the evolution of the software
during and after the development phase.
The application must be able to look through a
source control repository and reverse engineer
the changes from revisions into graphical form.
The application will use animation to make the
visualization of the source code easier and more
pleasant to the user.
PROPOSED SOLUTION
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User friendly application.
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Cross-platform application written in Java.
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Modular implementation allowing the future
reuse of any of the pieces.
MAJOR COMPONENTS
User Interface
 SVN Interface
 Doxygen Interface
 Doxygen(Documentation System)
 Xml Parser
 Graphical Interface
 Java Universal Network/Graph
Framework(Graphical Library)
 Container Classes
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DESIGN
USER
HOST PC
JUNG
GUI
GRAPHICAL
INTERFACE
SVN
INTERFACE
SERVER PC
SVN
REPOSITORY
XML PARSER
DOXYGEN
INTERFACE
DOXYGEN
TOOLS
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IDE
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Version Control
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Eclipse
SVN
Open-Source Libraries and Packages
Doxygen
 Jung
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MILESTONES
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Create SVN server to store source code repository.
Finalize the detailed design.
Investigate and familiarize with the open source software.
Explore the configuration and xml output schema used by
Doxygen.
 Examine the functionality provided by Jung.
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Implementation of the code.
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SVN interface.
Doxygen interface.
Xml parser.
Container classes.
Graphical interface
User interface
Write test plans.
Complete tests and obtain test results.
Write final report and presentation.
PROGRESS
2/25
3/2
3/7
3/12
3/17
3/22
3/27
4/1
4/6
4/11
Create SVN Server
Investigate Open-Source Software
Detailed Design
SVN Interface Implementation
Doxygen Interface Implementation
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Xml Parser Implementation
Start Date
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Container Classes Implementation
Completed
Graphical interface Implementation
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Remaining
User interface Implementation
Integration
Test Plans
Testing
Fixing Bugs
Report and Presentation
QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS