Software Cartography��� by Adrian Kuhn

Software Cartography

Adrian Kuhn, Univ of Bern

“Spatial reasoning is deeply connected to how we understand

the world around us.”������

— David Merrill

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Each hill is a file.

Distance is based on vocabulary.

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Why Vocabulary?

•  Remains stable over time [Antoniol 2007]

•  Abstracts from structure [Maletic 2001]

•  Clusters by domain [Kuhn 2007]

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Line length has a meaning!

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Interface  

Model  

Database  

Apache Tomcat

Columba

Google Taglib

jFTP

JCGrid

JoSQL

test  code  production  code  

color  =  package  

35% to 72%

Lost in Code Navigation.

Embedded in the IDE.

Software Cartography http://scg.unibe.ch/codemap