Overview

MetricsOverlay provides an Eclipse plug-in for viewing metrics on top of source code. It has been developed for the purpose of investigating the potential benefits to developers of visualisations presented directly on top of or in tandem with text. The system provides API and XML integration allowing multiple sources of metrics to be provided. Each metric is then mapped onto a display feature. This mapping then allows quantitative values to be represented directly on top of source code.

A variety of display methods are provided. This allows various forms of code colouring, underlining and colour chips to be displayed.