Exploranative Code Quality Documents

Good code quality is a prerequisite for efficiently developing maintainable software. In this paper, we present a novel approach to generate exploranative (explanatory and exploratory) data-driven documents that report code quality in an interactive, exploratory environment. We employ a template-bas...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 26(2020), 1 vom: 22. Jan., Seite 1129-1139
1. Verfasser: Mumtaz, Haris (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Latif, Shahid, Beck, Fabian, Weiskopf, Daniel
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2020
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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