Title
Reconstructing de facto software development methods.
Abstract
Software development is a complex process that requires disciplined engineering approaches. Empirical studies show that companies still don't document their development practice, or if they do, these are not up-to-date and do not reflect how they really develop software. The main objective of this paper is to propose an approach that can help companies in documenting their real development practice. Comparing to existing approaches that require substantial effort on the side of project members, our approach extracts information on development practice directly from software repositories. Five companies have been studied to identify information that can be retrieved from software repositories. Based on this, an approach to reconstruct development practice has been developed. The approach has been evaluated on a real software repository shared by an additional company. The results confirm that software repository information suffice for the reconstruction of various aspects of development process, i.e. disciplines, activities, roles, and artifacts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.2298/CSIS180226038J
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software development method,Software repository,Development practice,Development method,Development project
Software engineering,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Software development methods,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
1
1820-0214
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marko Jankovic100.34
Slavko Zitnik2946.68
Marko Bajec346534.56