Software Musification

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an approach that uses software metrics to comprehend attributes of a codebase: maintainability, reusability, or complexity. This approach is new because it uses gathered metrics as the basis to associate musical sounds to source code classes. These sounds are arranged to compose a melody that can be both visualized (as a musical score) and played. We named this new way to deal with a codebase: software musification. To prove the validity of our proposal, we show a sample of its application. The main goal of this paper is to show our promising idea and to present research achievements at the early stages of our research.