TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Speth, Sandro
A1  - Breitenbücher, Uwe
A1  - Krieger, Niklas
A1  - Wippermann, Pia
A1  - Becker, Steffen
T1  - Integrating issue management systems of independently developed software components
T2  - Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming : 24th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2023, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 13–16, 2023, proceedings
N2  - Modern component-based architectural styles, e.g., microservices, enable developing the components independently from each other. However, this independence can result in problems when it comes to managing issues, such as bugs, as developer teams can freely choose their technology stacks, such as issue management systems (IMSs), e.g., Jira, GitHub, or Redmine. In the case of a microservice architecture, if an issue of a downstream microservice depends on an issue of an upstream microservice, this must be both identified and communicated, and the downstream service’s issues should link to its causing issue. However, agile project management today requires efficient communication, which is why more and more teams are communicating through comments in the issues themselves. Unfortunately, IMSs are not integrated with each other, thus, semantically linking these issues is not supported, and identifying such issue dependencies from different IMSs is time-consuming and requires manual searching in multiple IMS technologies. This results in many context switches and prevents developers from being focused and getting things done. Therefore, in this paper, we present a concept for seamlessly integrating different IMS technologies into each other and providing a better architectural context. The concept is based on augmenting the websites of issue management systems through a browser extension. We validate the approach with a prototypical implementation for the Chrome browser. For evaluation, we conducted expert interviews, which approved that the presented approach provides significant advantages for managing issues of agile microservice architectures.
KW  - microservices
KW  - issue management
KW  - service engineering
KW  - component-based architectures
KW  - Gropius
KW  - browser extension
Y1  - 2023
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-48008
SN  - 1865-1348
SS  - 1865-1348
SN  - 978-3-031-33975-2
SB  - 978-3-031-33975-2
SN  - 978-3-031-33976-9
SB  - 978-3-031-33976-9
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33976-9_1
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33976-9_1
SP  - 3
EP  - 19
S1  - 17
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  -