Process Mining Framework for Software Processes

摘要

Software development processes are often not explicitly modelled and sometimes even chaotic. In order to keep track of the involved documents and files, engineers use Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems. Along the way, those systems collect and store information on the software process itself. Thus, SCM information can be used for constructing explicit process models, which is called software process mining. In this paper we show that (1) a Process Mining Framework can be used for obtaining software process models as well as for analysing and optimising them; (2) an algorithmic approach, which arose from our research on software processes, is integrated in the framework.