Assigning change requests to software developers

Assigning change requests to software developers

The paper presents an approach to recommend a ranked list of expert developers to assist in the implementation of software change requests (e.g., bug reports and feature requests). An Information Retrieval (IR)-based concept location technique is first used to locate source code entities, e.g., files and classes, relevant to a given textual description of a change request. The previous commits ...

How well do experienced software developers predict software change?

Formal Modeling of Space Shuttle Software Change Requests using SCR

This paper describes a feasibility study into the use of a formal requirements modeling method (SCR) to assist with Independent Verification and Validation of change requests for Space Shuttle flight software. The goal of the study was to determine whether a formal modeling technique could automate some of the manual analysis tasks performed on change requests, including consistency checking. T...

Assigning people to roles in software projects

This paper is based on the premise that people’s behavioural competencies or characteristics of professional conduct influence the effectiveness and efficiency with which they perform a predetermined role in the software process. We propose a capabilities-oriented process model that includes traditional elements of the software process (activities, products, techniques, people and roles) and th...

Assigning Treatments to Responsibilities in Software Architectures

According to the methodology proposed by Craig Larman in the context of Object-Oriented (OO) specification and design [1], designing a software system architecture basically means to assign treatments to responsibilities. Responsibilities are derived from the specification of the system, examples are: obtaining the element identified by some key; updating an attribute from a class; or ensuring ...