Collaborative Design and Planning of Software Architecture Changes via Software City Visualization

TL;DR

On-going work on a novel approach that enables developers to collaboratively use software city visualization to design and plan software architecture changes is presented.

Abstract

Developers usually use diagrams and source code to jointly discuss and plan software architecture changes. With this poster, we present our on-going work on a novel approach that enables developers to collaboratively use software city visualization to design and plan software architecture changes.

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• Figure 1: Screenshot of our prototype using an exemplary software city visualization encompassing multiple applications. When a user hovers the mouse over an entity, a popup emerges, displaying buttons for modifying the entity. Textures are utilized to highlight modified entities, while non-default colors indicate the entities selected by collaborators. The right sidebar features a changelog of modifications, allowing users to insert selected entries into the issue form. Additionally, users have the option to append comments or screenshots prior to uploading the issue to GitLab.