VisAr3d-Dynamic: uma abordagem para apoiar a compreensão do comportamento dinâmico de software por meio de realidade virtual

Abstract

Software systems are developed and maintained for a considerable period of time by a team of highly rotating developers. Changes made by developers who do not understand the original design can cause software degradation. After these changes, it is necessary to know both the original design and the new rules implemented in order to understand the product. After several changes, both engineers who designed the software and developers who are unfamiliar with the system will have difficulty in understanding the software because what is executed is incompatible with its documentation. Since understanding is a critical and challenging activity, the development of techniques and tools that support this activity can influence the overall efficiency of software development. The main objective of this dissertation is to propose an approach, named VisAr3D-Dynamic, which aims to support the understanding of the dynamic behavior of large-scale software systems through Virtual Reality, providing interactive resources during software dynamic analysis. This approach had its performance evaluated by an observation study, whose results show positive indicators regarding the understanding of the dynamic behavior of software systems.