Design and evaluation of a tool for extracting and visualizing software development expertise | |
| Author | Sutatip Pittayapong |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.CS-11-09 |
| Subject(s) | Computer software--Development--Evaluation System design |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Computer Science, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. CS-11-09 |
| Abstract | Expertise is the important resource in software development. It is difficult to find skills of experts in an organization. Normally, administrator identifies skills with personal experiences with the experts. The purposes of this study are: 1) to develop and evaluate a knowledge base system that extracts and classifies knowledge from software archives, and, 2) to develop data representation of the knowledge base in supporting and identifying domain experts and evaluate the effectiveness of the developed data representation. The developed knowledge base system extracts expert skills from the software archives and classifies the skills based on software concept ontology which derived from Open Project Directory (OPD). The skills are categorized by using si milarity measurement, the Jaccard coefficient. The accuracy of knowledge classification is evaluated by using precision and recall. Knowledge base data representations were developed using spreadsheet, and visualization tools: Tree View and TreeMap with Node Graph. Evaluating the effectiveness of data representations was achieved through comparing the time used in completing tasks with different complexity, and, users' satisfactions. TreeMap with Node Graph spent least time in showing pairs of experts and skills, and, also shows the positive changes of users' behaviors in identifying experts and skills, therefore, has received the highest results of users' satisfaction. |
| Year | 2011 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis : no. CS-11-09 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Computer Science (CS) |
| Chairperson(s) | Janecek, Paul; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Vatcharaporn Esichaikul;Guha, Sumanta; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Royal Thai Government (RTG); |
| Degree | Thesis (M. Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2011 |