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Project "Binocular" is a platform for viewing and interacting with time-based visualizations of combined data from the version control (VCS), issue tracking (ITS), and continuous integration (CI) systems. This project aims to provide an entry point for exploratory analysis, to assist in increasing overall development productivity, and to help to understand correlations in software engineering data. The focus of this project is to provide a tool to (new) team members to get to know the code base in more, greater detail, to make the development process in general more transparent to all involved members.

Project "Binocular" is based on the principles and processes of the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) research area. MSR is a research area that focuses on extracting valuable information and knowledge from the vast amount of data stored in software repositories.

Key aspects of Project “Binocular” include:

Data Collection and Extraction: Collect data from various sources. Our focus was on VCSs, ITSs and CI systems
Analysis Techniques: Applying various analysis techniques to extract meaningful insights from the collected data. This includes identifying code changes, analyzing developer collaboration, and understanding software evolution.
Software Analytics: Using visualizations and dashboards to represent complex software development data in a comprehensible and actionable manner

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Large Gallery of Visualizations

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Requirements

Completed course Software Engineering Projekt (PR)
Reliable knowledge in Version Control Systems
Reliable knowledge in Issue Tracking Systems
Optional: Completed course in Software Quality Assurance (VU)

Contact and topic areas

It is possible to accomplish

a bachelor thesis,
a master thesis,
internships,
an ASE PR project

in the context of this project. If you are interested in this project and the following topics please contact: ta.ca.neinullwut.osninull@nullrenbarg.nnnullahoj

Contributors

Johann Grabner, Project lead and Supervisor
Roman Decker, Master’s thesis, Initial Development
Maximilian Zenz, Part-time Developer
Sebastian Watzinger, Part-time Developer

Hot Topics

Hint: Order is not relevant, list is not exhaustive

Polyglot data mining: Exploring the MSR process using various languages and tools
- Possible interest in, e.g.: Rust, Go, Java, Kotlin, C, C++, Python, … (see libgit2)
- Possibly combined with, e.g.: WebAssembly, Docker, k8s, Microservice Architectures, Distributed Task Processing, …
SQL + MSR (Mining Software Repositories), see
Development of a Domain Specific Language (DSL)
Code Semantic Analysis
Commit Dependency Graph Analysis (see git-deps)
Leveraging GPU capabilities in MSR
- Using the GPGPU for Scaling Up Mining Software Repositories, External Link
- Accelerating data mining with CUDA and OpenMP, External Link
Native, multiplatform Application Development (e.g. Electron, Tauri, pyqt, …)

Project Binocular

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