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Bailey, Brian P. Simmons, Connor 2013-05-24T21:51:25Z 2013-05-24T21:51:25Z 2013-05 2013-05-24T21:51:25Z 2013-05 Understanding change in software development is a time-intensive yet essential task. Developers must understand the evolution of code in order to properly write, revise, and refactor their own additions. Historically, version control systems were the central method for interpreting how a software project has changed over time. However, these systems are limited in the amount of information they can convey and in the ways they allow users to understand change. My thesis is a new way of understanding code change. We created CodeSkimmer, a plug-in for Eclipse that can replay every action a developer took while using the editor. The plug-in offers several ways to aid in interpreting the playback. A visualization shows users, graphically, the types of changes that occurred while social, textual, and temporal filters are provided to mark points of interest in the set of recorded operations. These interesting operations are then highlighted through automatic alteration in the playback speed as well as through different visual methods. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-04-22T17:45:10Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Simmons_Connor.docx: 1353387 bytes, checksum: a496585dbbd3f29c7e6ca5cafebd2174 (MD5) Simmons_Connor.pdf: 995930 bytes, checksum: c6017104a5697cee8aba5f8de89c01d9 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-24T21:51:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Connor_Simmons.pdf: 995930 bytes, checksum: c6017104a5697cee8aba5f8de89c01d9 (MD5) Simmons_Connor.docx: 1353387 bytes, checksum: a496585dbbd3f29c7e6ca5cafebd2174 (MD5) license.txt: 4064 bytes, checksum: 09f3ca60da0514df769d774e2793eea9 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/44125 en Copyright 2013 Connor L Simmons visualization eclipse eclipse plugin code change understanding change understanding code replay code skimming CodeSkimmer code playback user interface playback speed replay speed code filter CodeSkimmer: a novel visualization tool for capturing, replaying, and understanding fine-grained change in software text Computer Science 1434 Computer Science 0112 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S. MS:CS:BS/MS Program - UIUC 10KS1854MS