Automating technical reviews in software forges and repositories based on linked data

Abstract

Automating the evaluation of a software process is complex due to the absence of interoperability mechanisms between the tools that are used to manage, develop or maintain software projects. This work presents an approach to facilitate the construction of mechanisms to evaluate software projects. Based on information integration principles and Linked Open Data techniques, project management and development tools can expose their data using a set of shared models, thereby facilitating the development of integration solutions intended for software process evaluation. A practical application of the approach is here described in order to facilitate automated technical reviews of projects in software forges and repositories.