使用精益方法在 GitHub 中进行需求管理.pdf
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Requirements management in GitHub with a
lean approach
Risto Salo, Timo Poranen, and Zheying Zhang
University of Tampere, School of Information Sciences, Tampere, Finland
risto.salo@gmail.com,{timo.t.poranen,zheying.zhang}@uta.fi
Abstract. GitHub is an online platform for hosting projects that use
the Git revision control system to manage code. Its lightweight issue
tracker helps to maintain lists of issues identified during the development
process, including bugs, features, or other software artifacts. Although
issue tracking software has been practically used in software industry,
studies on using it to manage requirements remain insufficient. This pa-
per tackles the issue by presenting a semi-formal guideline for managing
requirements in agile software development projects using GitHub. The
guideline is evaluated on a theoretical level by analyzing how well it
guides to manage requirements and fits in an agile software development
setting. It is compared against lean principles. In addition, the guideline
is put into use in a case study. The studies indicate that the guideline
and GitHub are well-suited for requirements management in an agile
environment.
Keywords: Requirements management; GitHub; Lean software devel-
opment; guideline
1 Introduction
GitHub [6] is a rapidly growing Internet based service which describes itself as
a social coding platform. In the beginning of 2013 GitHub had almost 5 million
source code repositories, and in a year it doubled the figure to 10 million. An
average of 10000 new users subscribe every weekday. GitHub is not a place just
for individual users; its lightweight and easy to use features of managing source
code and supporting collaboration with developers have attracted much atten-
tion, and been widely recognized by notable organizations, including Amazon,
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and even the White House. Although GitHub is
mostly used for code, its issue tracker and wiki has been used for requesting and
monitoring software features in ad hoc ways. How could these tools be used to
manage requirements without a need to utilize another tool forms an interesting
issue in software projects using GitHub. This paper tries to tackle it by intro-
ducing a guideline for requirements management (RM) using GitHubs native
features. The guideline was put to use in a software development project and
also evaluated based on the objectives of the requirements management and lean
principles. This article is based on Salo’s [13] thesis.
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