Mashing Up Software Issue Management, Development, and Usage Data

Abstract

Modern software development approaches rely extensively on tools. Motivated by practices such as continuous integration, deployment and delivery, these tools are used in a fashion where data are automatically accumulated in different databases as a side-effect of everyday development activities. In this paper we introduce an approach for software engineering data visualization as a mash up that combines data from issue management, software development and production use. The visualization can show to all stake holders how well continuous delivery is realized in the project. The visualization clearly shows the time spent to specify and develop the features as well the length of the delivery cycle. Further more the visualization shows how much work is unfinished and waiting for delivery. This can help the development team to decrease the amount of unfinished work and by that help them to keep up in continuous delivery mind set. In addition to development data usage of the features is also visualized.