Christoph Treude, Margaret-Anne D. Storey. ConcernLines: A timeline view of co-occurring concerns. In 31st International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2009, May 16-24, 2009, Vancouver, Canada, Proceedings. pages 575-578, IEEE, 2009. [doi]
Understanding the evolution of a software system requires understanding how information about the release history, non-functional requirements and project milestones relates to functional requirements on the software components. This short paper describes a new tool, called CONCERNLINES, that supports this cognitive process by visualizing co-occurring concerns over time.