DiscOrDance
visualizing software developers communities on Discord
Additional information
Authors
Type
Article in conference proceedings
Year
2022
Language
English
Abstract
New communication platforms have emerged to support developers in finding and creating the knowledge they need for program comprehension, maintenance, and evolution. Instant messaging applications are supplanting developer mailing lists in collaborative development toolchains. These applications provide a new medium, supporting faster and richer communication (e.g., embedded previews, images, files, videos). Research so far focused on extracting information from these platforms, but there is a lack of tools to visually and interactively explore them. We present DISCORDANCE, a tool for the interactive visual exploration of the complete message history of a Discord server. We show how three categories of views elicit insights on aspects of the structure, members, and software related content of a Discord server. We demonstrate use cases of DISCORDANCE to support software maintenance and evolution activities on an active software developer community, the Pharo Discord server.
Keywords
Software communities, Collaborative development, Visualization, Discord
Conference proceedings
2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
Pages (or article number)
474-478
Diffusion
License
Rights reserved
Visibility
Public
Status open access
Green
