Abstract-Continuous Integration (CI) environments cope with the repeated integration of source code changes and provide rapid feedback about the status of a software project. However, as the integration cycles become shorter, the amount of data increases, and the effort to find information in CI environments becomes substantial. In modern CI environments, the selection of measurements (e.g., build status, quality metrics) listed in a dashboard does only change with the intervention of a stakeholder (e.g., a project manager). In this paper, we want to address the shortcoming of static views with so-called Software Quality Assessment (SQA) profiles. SQA-Profiles are defined as rulesets and enable a dynamic composition of CI dashboards based on stakeholder activities in tools of a CI environment (e.g., version control system). We present a set of SQA-Profiles for project management committee (PMC) members: Bandleader, Integrator, Gatekeeper, and Onlooker. For this, we mined the commit and issue management activities of PMC members from 20 Apache projects. We implemented a framework to evaluate the performance of our rule-based SQA-Profiles in comparison to a machine learning approach. The results showed that projectindependent SQA-Profiles can be used to automatically extract the profiles of PMC members with a precision of 0.92 and a recall of 0.78.
In other work, Brandtner et al. REF propose a rule-based approach to automatically profile stakeholders based on their activities in version control systems and issue tracking platforms.
SQA-Profiles: Rule-based activity profiles for Continuous Integration environments
2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)
2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)
Engineering Computer Science