Towards Generation of Software Development Tasks

The presence of well defined fine-grained sub-tasks is important to the development process: having a fine-grained task context has been shown to allow developers to more efficiently resume work. However, determining how to break a high level task down into sub-tasks is not always straightforward. S...

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Main Author: Thompson, C. Albert
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Data mining
Electronic mail
Logic gates
Medical services
Programming
Software
Stress
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Summary:The presence of well defined fine-grained sub-tasks is important to the development process: having a fine-grained task context has been shown to allow developers to more efficiently resume work. However, determining how to break a high level task down into sub-tasks is not always straightforward. Sometimes developers lack experience, and at other times, the task definition is not clear enough to afford confident decomposition. In my research I intend to show that by using syntactic mining of past task descriptions and their decomposition, I can provide automatically derived sub-task suggestions to afford more confident task decomposition by developers.
ISSN:0270-5257
1558-1225
DOI:10.1109/ICSE.2015.291