Visualization of Release Planning

Abstract

Software release planning is a complex task, as many different factors must be considered. Project managers can't cope with the complexity of release planning. Project managers need a tool support in release planning. Existing tools for release planning are not appropriate or are one tool in a set of specialized tools in a project. Using more tools leads to inconsistent data among this set of tools. This paper proposes a decision support tool for release planning: Basis of the tool is the Sysiphus framework, which stores all the information related to a software project in a single repository. Knowledge nuggets are introduced as a concept to aggregate and develop knowledge that belongs to a specific release. The paper shows a prototypically implemented visualization for planning multiple releases.