Tools
Over the years, researchers at the Software Institute have developed several tools, web applications, and produced several datasets. On this page you will find an overview of our tools.
Applications
An extension for Visual Studio Code that records your programming activity and provides means to self-reflect on what you have done, how you spent your time, and which entities you worked on
A lightweight IntelliJ IDE plugin which uses visualization techniques to depict the history of any chosen file augmented with information mined from the underlying versioning system
An extension to the Pharo Smalltalk IDE to capture the interactions of developers, structure them, and make them available for further use (e.g., visualizing them)
An extension of DFlow that uses interaction data to compute the importance of windows, and thus the likelihood that they will be used again in the future, with the aim of curing the so-called "window plague"
Web Applications
An application for teaching expressions centered around a notional machine called 'expression as trees'
A search engine to sample GitHub repositories to use for empirical studies. It allows to use several combinations of selection criteria (e.g., programming language, number of commits)
A visual platform to explore the Swiss Federal Archives. It aggregates the results according to the archive plan and presents them with Voronoi treemaps
Sonic Virus enables users to listen to the evolution of the COVID-19 outbreak around the world by means of data sonification, the auditory equivalent of data visualization
A visual web-based software analytics platform for Android applications. It mines software repositories of apps and uses a set of visualization techniques to present the mined data
Frameworks
A Python educational library designed for teaching problem decomposition using graphics
Transparent, fast, and user-friendly uncertainty quantification for tf.keras neural networks
Curated Datasets
Archive
A plug-in for the Eclipse IDE to enrich commit comments with Software Visualization
