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Live Software Development Environment Using Virtual Reality: A Prototype and Experiment

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Successful software systems tend to grow considerably, ending up suffering from essential complexity, and very hard to understand as a whole. Software visualization techniques have been explored as one approach to ease software understanding. This work presents a novel approach and environment for software development that explores the use of liveness and virtual reality (VR) as a way to shorten the feedback loop between developers and their software systems in an interactive and immersive way. As a proof-of-concept, the authors developed a prototype that uses a visual city metaphor and allows developers to visit and dive into the system, in a live way. To assess the usability and viability of the approach, the authors carried on experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of the approach, and how to best support a live approach for software development.

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    Diogo Amaral, Gil Domingues, João Pedro Dias, Hugo Sereno Ferreira, Ademar Aguiar, Rui Nóbrega & Filipe Figueiredo Correia

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    João Pedro Dias, Hugo Sereno Ferreira, Ademar Aguiar, Rui Nóbrega & Filipe Figueiredo Correia

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Amaral, D. et al. (2020). Live Software Development Environment Using Virtual Reality: A Prototype and Experiment. In: Damiani, E., Spanoudakis, G., Maciaszek, L. (eds) Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. ENASE 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1172. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40223-5_5

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