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CodePanorama: a language agnostic tool for visual code inspection

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ICPC '22: Proceedings of the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension

Pages 225 - 228

https://doi.org/10.1145/3524610.3527874

Published: 20 October 2022 Publication History

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Software projects change hands frequently. Oftentimes, developers are interested in the quality of the code before taking over responsibility on a project. This quality is commonly assessed using various code metrics, reducing the code into a handful of numbers. While useful, these numerical reductions quickly become detached from the real code. CodePanorama uses an alternative approach to summarize code not into numbers, but into images. By generating zoomed-out images of the code-base, the human eye can quickly spot anomalies without the need to rely on numerical metrics and statistics. This paper describes the tool CodePanorama, the images it generates, and the insights that can be gained from these images. We finally invite the software engineering community to start using it.

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ICPC '22: Proceedings of the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension

May 2022

698 pages

ISBN:9781450392983

DOI:10.1145/3524610

Conference Chairs:
Ayushi Rastogi
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Rosalia Tufano
USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
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General Chair:
Gabriele Bavota
USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
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Program Chairs:
Venera Arnaoudova
Washington State University, United States of America
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Sonia Haiduc
Florida State University, United States of America

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