Comparação entre desenvolvedores de software a partir de dados obtidos em repositório de controle de versão

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Moura, Marcello Henrique Dias de
• Orientador(a): Nascimento, Hugo Alexandre Dantas do
• Banca de defesa: Nascimento, Hugo Alexandre Dantas do, Minghim, Rosana, Albuquerque, Eduardo Simões de, Rosa, Thierson Couto
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência da Computação (INF)
• Departamento: Instituto de Informática - INF (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Desenvolvimento de software; Comparação entre desenvolvedores; Repositório de código fonte; Sistema e controle de versão; Métricas; Visualização de informações
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Software development; Comparison between developers; Source code repositories; Version control system; Metrics; Information visualization
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAO
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7944

Version Control Systems are repositories that store source code changes done by software developers. Research that extracts data from these repositories for analysis can be classified into two groups: those that focus on the development process and the ones that focus on the developers. The present dissertation investigates the second case and contributes to the field by providing: (a) the definition of a history file that summarizes changes made to software in line and file levels, (b) a set of metrics to evaluate the work of the developers; and (c) two approaches for comparing the developers based on their metrics. A computational system that implements these metrics and approaches was built and applied to two case studies of real software development projects. The results obtained in the studies were positive. They were consistent with the general perception of project managers about the work done by the developers. They also leaded to new ideas for improving the research.We believe that these contributions are a step towards a better understanding and characterization of the way about how software developers work.