The Visual Physics Analysis (VISPA) project integrates different aspects of physics analyses into a graphical development environment. It addresses the typical development cycle of (re-)designing, executing and verifying an analysis. The project provides an extendable plug-in mechanism and includes plug-ins for designing the analysis flow, for running the analysis on batch systems, and for browsing the data content. The corresponding plug-ins are based on an object-oriented toolkit for modular data analysis. We introduce the main concepts of the project, describe the technical realization and demonstrate the functionality in example applications.
@article{arxiv.1205.4912,
title = {A Development Environment for Visual Physics Analysis},
author = {H. -P. Bretz and M. Brodski and M. Erdmann and R. Fischer and A. Hinzmann and T. Klimkovich and D. Klingebiel and M. Komm and J. Lingemann and G. Müller and T. Münzer and M. Rieger and J. Steggemann and T. Winchen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4912},
year = {2012}
}