Can Git Repository Visualization Support Educators in Assessing Group Projects?

Mircea Lungu; Helge Pfeiffer; Marco D'Ambros; Michele Lanza; Jesper Findhal

doi:10.1109/VISSOFT55257.2022.00030

Can Git Repository Visualization Support Educators in Assessing Group Projects?

Mircea Lungu
, Helge Pfeiffer
, Marco D'Ambros
, Michele Lanza
, Jesper Findhal

Università della Svizzera italiana

Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Abstract

In the past years numerous software visualization tools have been introduced to support the analysis of software systems and their evolution as captured in the versioning systems. Usually the target audience of such tools comprises software engineering professionals. In this paper we argue that such tools are also beneficial for educators who need to evaluate the quality of software systems developed by students. However, since the needs of educators are different than those of the software engineering professionals, we discuss several educator needs first. We report several usage examples that we believe are useful for educators when using repository visualization tools. We illustrate them with examples from several student projects from different courses in two universities. We conclude with a series of considerations that should be heeded by both educators and future tool-builders.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2022 Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2022
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-8093-2
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-8092-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VISSOFT55257.2022.00030
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis - Limassol, Cyprus Duration: 2 Oct 2022 → 3 Oct 2022 Conference number: 10 https://vissoft.io/2022/index.html

Workshop

Workshop	International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis
Number	10
Country/Territory	Cyprus
City	Limassol
Period	02/10/2022 → 03/10/2022
Internet address	https://vissoft.io/2022/index.html

Keywords

Software Visualization
Repository Analysis
Educational Tools
Software Engineering Education
Quality Evaluation

Access to Document

10.1109/VISSOFT55257.2022.00030

https://mircealungu.com/docs/assets/papers/22-Git-Vis-4Edu.pdf

Cite this

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