%0 Conference Paper %B Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories %D 2006 %T The evolution radar: visualizing integrated logical coupling information %A D'Ambros, Marco %A Lanza, Michele %A Lungu, Mircea %K change management %K cvs %K evolution %K logical coupling %K mozilla %K scm %K source code %K thunderbird %K tinderbox %K visualization %X 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. %B Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories %S MSR '06 %I ACM %C New York, NY, USA %P 26–32 %@ 1-59593-397-2 %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1137992 %R http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1137992 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/26TheEvolutionRadar.pdf