@Article{LimaGuerMeir:2020:ToViCo,
               author = "Lima, Phyllipe de Souza and Guerra, Eduardo Martins and Meirelles, 
                         Paulo",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Universidade Federal 
                         de S{\~a}o Paulo (UNIFESP)}",
                title = "Towards visualizing code annotations distribution",
              journal = "Anais do Computer on the Beach",
                 year = "2020",
               volume = "11",
               number = "1",
                pages = "277--284",
             keywords = "Metadata, Visualization, Annotations, Java.",
             abstract = "Java developers make extensive use of code annotations since their 
                         introduction in version 5 of the language. They are inserted 
                         directly on the source code for custom metadata configuration, 
                         similar to C# attributes. The software engineering community has 
                         few works investigating their usage and impact on source code. 
                         Being able to visualize characteristics of code annotations might 
                         aid developers in detecting potential misuse, outliers as well as 
                         increase the comprehensibility and readability of the source code. 
                         In this paper, we present an approach to use software metrics to 
                         generate a 2D polymetric view targeting the visualization of code 
                         annotations in Java classes. We developed a prototype tool using 
                         the Unity Game Engine. It displays classes and packages as 
                         rectangles and annotations as circles. We demonstrated the tool 
                         with a small sample Java program.",
                  doi = "10.14210/cotb.v11n1.p277-284",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.14210/cotb.v11n1.p277-284",
                 issn = "2358-0852",
                label = "lattes: 3622864350804940 1 LimaGuerMeir:2020:ToViCo",
             language = "pt",
           targetfile = "lima_towards.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "16 maio 2024"
}