Using tags to support feature management across issue tracking systems and version control systems
Context & motivation: Features are important for many software engineering activities, e.g. release planning. Companies document features in Issue Tracking Systems (ITS) and store feature code in Version Control Systems (VCS). Question/Problem: However, companies do not always manage features sy...
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| Format: | Chapter/Article Conference Paper |
| Language: | English |
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21 February 2017
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Requirements engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
Year: 2017, Pages: 174-180 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-54045-0_13 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54045-0_13 Verlag, Volltext: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-54045-0_13 
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| Author Notes: | Marcus Seiler, Barbara Paech |
| Summary: | Context & motivation: Features are important for many software engineering activities, e.g. release planning. Companies document features in Issue Tracking Systems (ITS) and store feature code in Version Control Systems (VCS). Question/Problem: However, companies do not always manage features systematically. This issue hinders e.g. the prioritizing of features for release planning. Principal ideas/results: We want to provide insights into practice regarding feature management. We have developed first ideas on lightweight feature management using tags. We conducted semi-structured interviews with eight experts to get insight into practice and an early evaluation of our idea. Contribution: The interviews showed that fuzzy feature descriptions, insufficient traceability, and fragmentation of feature knowledge are major practice problems. The interviews thus confirm the need for a method for managing features across ITS and VCS. We propose our lightweight method for feature management and describe future research regarding our approach. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 24.07.2018 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9783319540450 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-54045-0_13 |