Journal's Facebook pageReconstructing De Facto Software Development Methods
- Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
Večna pot 113, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
{marko.jankovic, slavko.zitnik, marko.bajec}@fri.uni-lj.si
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.
Key words
Software development method; Software repository; Development practice; Development method; Development project
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS180226038J
Publication information
Volume 16, Issue 1 (January 2019)
Year of Publication: 2019
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium
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Janković, M., Žitnik, S., Bajec, M.: Reconstructing De Facto Software Development Methods. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 16, No. 1, 75-104. (2019), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS180226038J
