Master Thesis of Matthias Ruppel

Automatic Extraction of Design Decision Relationships from a Task Managment System

Research questions

• Which characteristics of design decisions (rationale, alternative) can be manually extracted from documented tasks? (comments, descriptions, ..)
• How identified characteristics can improve automatic detection of design decision categories? 

Approach

 The data in issue management system JIRA is accessable over a REST API. The data model of an Jira issue is illustrated in the followin figure:

The relationships between entities stored in Jira should be analyzed and mapped to the ADD conceptual model presented by proposed by Zimmermann et al (see below).

References

Olaf Zimmermann, Jana Koehler, Frank Leymann, Ronny Polley, Nelly Schuster, Managing architectural decision models with dependency relations, integrity constraints, and production rules, Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 82, Issue 8, August 2009, Pages 1249-1267, ISSN 0164-1212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2009.01.039.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121209000181)