BugVis : Commit slicing for fault visualisation

Bowes, David and Petric, J. and Hall, T. (2020) BugVis : Commit slicing for fault visualisation. In: ICPC '20 : Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Program Comprehension. ACM, New York, pp. 436-440. ISBN 9781450379588

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Abstract

In this paper we present BugVis, our tool which allows the visualisation of the lifetime of a code fault. The commit history of thefault from insertion to fix is visualised. Unlike previous similartools, BugVis visualises only the lines of each commit involved inthe fault. The visualisation creates a commit slice throughout thehistory of the fault which enables comprehension of the evolutionof the code involved in the fault.