Profile-based View Composition in Development Dashboards

Abstract

Continuous Integration (CI) environments cope with the repeated integration of source code changes and provide rapid feedback about the status of a software project. However, as the integration cycles become shorter, the amount of data increases, and the effort to find information in statically composed CI dashboards becomes substantial. We want to address the shortcoming of static views with a so-called Software Quality Assessment (SQA) mashup and profiles. SQA-Mashup describes an approach to enable the integration and presentation of data generated in CI environments. In addition, SQA-Profiles describe sets of rules to enable a dynamic composition of CI dashboards based on stakeholder activities in tools of a CI environment (e.g., version control system).