Capability assessment of individual software development processes using software repositories and DEA

  • Authors:

  • Shen Zhang;Yongji Wang;Ye Yang;Junchao Xiao

  • Affiliations:

  • Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bejing, China;Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, The Chine ...;Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • ICSP'08 Proceedings of the Software process, 2008 international conference on Making globally distributed software development a success story
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Effective capability assessment of individual software processes is akey issue involved in validating the past and adjusting future development processes.While most of the current assessment approaches have been successfullydemonstrated in academic communities, new challenges in metric data extractionand further analysis still arise when considering actual industrial applications. Inthis paper, we propose a novel integrated method for capability assessment of individualsoftware development processes. Firstly, our method facilitates the capabilitymetrics extraction task by making use of software repositories as the datasource, enabling recording of data effortless and more accurate. Then, we decomposethese metrics at the individual-level of granularity by exploring differenthuman identities from various sources. Finally, the data envelopment analysis(DEA) is also adopted to assist our method to carry out an objective and quantitativeassessment for individual software processes under MIMO constraints. Empiricalillustrations from a practical case study illustrate the effectiveness of theproposed method.