Uma abordagem de apoio à gerência de projetos de software para análise da contribuição de desenvolvedores

Abstract

Productivity is an important aspect for development teams and software companies to maintain their competitivity in the market. However, the productivity of a software team depends directly on the individual contribution of its developers. Unfortunately, there is no consensus in the literature on how to measure that contribution. Advances in this area include studies that propose using metrics based on mining software repositories as contribution indicators. However, these studies still lack the validation of the applicability and usefulness of such metrics in the context of project management. This dissertation proposes: (i) an approach that provides support to the analysis of the developers’ contributions; and (ii) an evaluation study of the proposed approach in the context of a software development organization. The results of this evaluation study show that the proposed metrics should not be used in isolation, but associated with other attributes that consider more subjective attributes, and the metrics contribute in different levels to the evaluation of the developers’ contributions.