SeeSS: Seeing what i broke - Visualizing change impact of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Journal
26th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Pages
353-356
Date Issued
2013
Author(s)
Abstract
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) is a fundamental web language for describing the presentation of web pages. CSS rules are often reused across multiple parts of a page and across multiple pages throughout a site to reduce repetition and to provide a consistent look and feel. When a CSS rule is modified, developers currently have to manually track and visually inspect all possible parts of the site that may be impacted by that change. We present SeeSS, a system that automatically tracks CSS change impact across a site and enables developers to easily visualize all of them. The impacted page fragments are sorted by severity and the differences before and after the change are highlighted using animation.
Type
conference paper