Abstract: In software engineering, issue management systems serve as an important indicator for tracking the progress and evolution of a project. The metadata generated by such tools can be used to create quantitative metrics that can help developers and managers guiding the project successfully. Furthermore, these metrics can be used as indicators to compare software engineering projects. However, even though development metrics exist, software engineering projects are highly heterogeneous in their use of development tools. Consequently, the same metrics cannot reliably be defined for different projects, making comparisons challenging or impossible. In this thesis, using a design science approach, we present a novel approach for comparing software engineering projects using two commonly used issue tracking systems GitHub Issues and Jira. Lastly, we use a dataset of different open source projects to demonstrate and evaluate our solution.
PDF: Master Thesis
Reference: Manik Malik. A Prototype for Comparing Customized Software Projects. Master Thesis. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg: 2025.
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