TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Paech, Barbara
A1  - Hübner, Paul
A1  - Merten, Thorsten
T1  - What are the Features of this Software?
T2  - Mannaert, Lavazza (Eds.): ICSEA 2014, The Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances. Nice, France, October 12-16, 2014
N2  - Application systems are often advertised with features, and features are used heavily for requirements man- agement. However, often software manufacturers only have incomplete information about the features of their software. The information is distributed over different sources, such as requirements documents, issue trackers, user manuals, and code. In this paper, we research the occurrence of feature information in open source software engineering data. We report on a case study with three open source systems. We analyze what information about features can be found in issue trackers and user documentation. Furthermore, we study the abstraction levels on which the features are described, how feature information is related, and we discuss the possibility to discover such information semi-automatically. To mirror the diversity of software development contexts, we choose open source systems, which are quite different, e.g., in the rigor of issue tracker usage. The results differ accordingly. One main result is that the user documentation did not provide more accurate information than the issue tracker compared to a provided feature list. The results also give hints on how the management of feature relevant information can be supported.
KW  - requirements management
KW  - mininig software repositories
KW  - user documentation
KW  - feature
KW  - issue tracker
UR  - https://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=icsea_2014_4_30_10270
SN  - 978-1-61208-367-4
SB  - 978-1-61208-367-4
SP  - 97
EP  - 106
PB  - ThinkMind
ER  -