@conference {D{\textquoteright}Ambros:2006:ERV:1137983.1137992, title = {The evolution radar: visualizing integrated logical coupling information}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories}, series = {MSR {\textquoteright}06}, year = {2006}, pages = {26{\textendash}32}, publisher = {ACM}, organization = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, abstract = {In software evolution research logical coupling has extensively been used to recover the hidden dependencies between source code artifacts. They would otherwise go lost because of the file-based nature of current versioning systems. Previous research has dealt with low-level couplings between files, leading to an explosion of data to be analyzed, or has abstracted the logical couplings to module level, leading to a loss of detailed information. In this paper we propose a visualization-based approach which integrates both file-level and module-level logical coupling information. This not only facilitates an in-depth analysis of the logical couplings at all granularity levels, it also leads to a precise characterization of the system modules in terms of their logical coupling dependencies.}, keywords = {change management, cvs, evolution, logical coupling, mozilla, scm, source code, thunderbird, tinderbox, visualization}, isbn = {1-59593-397-2}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1137992}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1137992}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/26TheEvolutionRadar.pdf}, author = {D{\textquoteright}Ambros, Marco and Lanza, Michele and Lungu, Mircea} }