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Type Dissertation
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title A Framework for Rapid and Systematic Software Quality Assessment
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Martin Brandtner
Supervisors
  • Harald Gall
  • Serge Demeyer
  • Martin Glinz
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Faculty Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology
Date 2015
Abstract Text Software quality assessment monitors and guides the evolution of a software system based on quality measurements. Continuous Integration (CI) environments can provide measurement data to feed such continuous assessments. However, in modern CI environments, data is scattered across multiple CI tools (e.g., build tool, version control system). Even small quality assessments can become extremely time-consuming, because each stakeholder has to seek for the data she needs. In this thesis, we introduce an approach to enable rapid and systematic software quality assessments. In the context of our work, systematic stands for the ability to do a comprehensive assessment of a software system based on data integrated from different CI tools. Rapid on the other hand, stands for the ability to increase the efficiency during an assessment by tailoring integrated CI data to the information needs of a stakeholder. Based on our findings from mining software repositories and best-practices of practitioners, we present an approach to (i) integrate CI data, (ii) profile stakeholder activities, (iii) tailor the integrated data, and (iv) present it in accordance to the individual needs of a stakeholder. We employed different kinds of studies to evaluate the core concepts of our approach. Additionally, we carried out a user and a case study to investigate the overall potential of our approach in a software quality assessment. The evaluation results clearly indicate that our approach can indeed enable more comprehensive quality assessment within less time.
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