| Author |
M.-A. D. Storey, K. Wong, P. Fong, D. Hooper, K. Hopkins, and H. A. Müller. |
| Title |
On Designing an Experiment to Evaluate a Reverse Engineering Tool. |
| Publication |
Proceedings of the 3rd Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, (WCRE'96), Monterey, California, USA, November 8-10, 1996 |
| Abstract |
The Rigi reverse engineering system is designed to analyze and summarize the structure of large software sys-tems. Two contrasting approaches are available for visualizing software structures in the Rigi graph editor. The first approach displays the structures through multiple, individ-ual windows. The second approach, Simple Hierarchical Multi-Perspective (SHriMP) views, employs fisheye views of nested graphs. This paper describes the design of an exper-iment to evaluate these alternative user interfaces. Various results from a preliminary pilot study to test the experiment design are reported. |
| Keywords |
Reverse engineering, visualizing software structures, fisheye views, user interfaces |
