PhD defence

Grip on Software: Understanding development progress of Scrum sprints and backlogs

• L.S. Helwerda

Date

Friday 13 September 2024

Time

11:30 - 12:30 hour

Address

Academy Building
Rapenburg 73
2311 GJ Leiden

Supervisor(s)

• Prof.dr.ir. F.J. Verbeek
• dr. W.A. Kosters

Summary

Software development is a complex process. It is important that software products become stable and maintainable assets. We examine and extend a software development framework that has been designed to support development in a flexible manner, namely Scrum. We apply machine learning methods in the hope to better understand what happens during the development process and provide predictions of Scrum sprint progress and product backlog sizes, among other indications of success. To obtain our data set, we design and construct a data acquisition pipeline using agent-based networking and query templates for generalized feature extraction. We provide overviews and in-depth reports for decision support and highlights of other aspects of the software development ecosystem through information visualizations.

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