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Welcome to VEM 2014!
VEM is co-located with CBSoft 2014
The continuing need to keep (i.e., identifying and correcting defects and improving the quality of the internal code) and development (i.e., adding new features) software systems is a major challenge in modern software engineering. Several studies show that activities related to software maintenance or evolution have been responsible for a considerable cost on the development process, reaching in some cases, 90% of the total cost.
The interest for software maintenance and evolution has also intensified in recent years, face of pressure for a while ever smaller between development and launch of new versions of software on the market. Another factor that has contributed to increased investment in activities maintenance and evolution of software is increasingly frequent advent of new execution environments (i.e., Web computing, ubiquitous computing and cloud computing), new development paradigms (eg, Aspect-Oriented Software Development - AOSD and Service-Oriented Architecture - SOA) and new types of access (i.e., from mobile devices tablets, gestural interfaces, etc.).
Before performing any maintenance or evolution, however, is fundamental understanding of the software to be modified. The understanding software is not a trivial activity, since it involves cognitive processes complex and may consume in some cases, up to 50% of the time for the maintenance.
Visualization Software is a subarea of areas Information Visualization and Software Engineering, which makes use of visual aids to facilitate understanding software, either through the analysis of a single version system or your entire version history.
Although there is a clear intersection of issues and research challenges involving areas of Visualization, Software Maintenance and Evolution, until recently these areas were the focus of two separate events organized by community Brazilian Software Engineering, usually in places and times of year also different. They are:
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