Visualising a Software Project
Posted: January 29th, 2009 | Author: Robin | Filed under: Web Technology | Tags: cvs, development, visualisation, wordle | 1 Comment »A big project I was responsible for at a previous employer kept me pretty busy, with several commits to the repository every day. I had a change log script setup to keep a regular change log updated so stakeholders could see the progress of changes.
Just before I left the job, I dropped this changelog into Wordle the results were pretty interesting.
Change Log Visualisation
Interestingly, you can see the level of involvement of various developers, the files which were touched the most and the release tags which had the most commits. When I look at this, it gives me an instant view of the problem areas of code and where the bulk of the effort was spent.
