TY - GEN
T1 - KaitoroCap
T2 - 9th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on on Software Architecture, WICSA 2011
AU - Su, Moon Ting
AU - Hosking, John
AU - Grundy, John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2011 IEEE.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - To facilitate the usage of software architecture documents (ADs), we claim the architectural information in the ADs needs to be structured into or presented as chunks. A chunk allows related information to be retrieved collectively as a unit and simplifies information location tasks. We propose a new semi-automated approach based on the actual usage of ADs by previous users, i.e. by capturing users' exploration paths through ADs while engaging in information seeking tasks and making these paths available for future retracing and analysis. As part of our work, we developed KaitoroCap, a document navigation capture and visualisation tool. Its main features are exploration paths capture, retrieval, analysis, hierarchical tree-view visualization of paths, path searching, section rating, tagging, commenting, expanding/collapsing and page model generation to enable dynamic restructuring of ADs. This paper describes the design, implementation and usage examples of KaitoroCap.
AB - To facilitate the usage of software architecture documents (ADs), we claim the architectural information in the ADs needs to be structured into or presented as chunks. A chunk allows related information to be retrieved collectively as a unit and simplifies information location tasks. We propose a new semi-automated approach based on the actual usage of ADs by previous users, i.e. by capturing users' exploration paths through ADs while engaging in information seeking tasks and making these paths available for future retracing and analysis. As part of our work, we developed KaitoroCap, a document navigation capture and visualisation tool. Its main features are exploration paths capture, retrieval, analysis, hierarchical tree-view visualization of paths, path searching, section rating, tagging, commenting, expanding/collapsing and page model generation to enable dynamic restructuring of ADs. This paper describes the design, implementation and usage examples of KaitoroCap.
KW - Capturing tool
KW - Exploration
KW - Navigation
KW - Software architecture document
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019356736&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/WICSA.2011.58
DO - 10.1109/WICSA.2011.58
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9780769543512
T3 - Proceedings - 9th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA 2011
SP - 359
EP - 362
BT - Proceedings - 9th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on on Software Architecture, WICSA 2011
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 20 June 2011 through 24 June 2011
ER -