JP2002366674A - System and program for automatically managing software development - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the reliability of progress information by realizing progress management concerning a large number of workers and quantitatively/ qualitatively calculating progress information. SOLUTION: When coding is started by a worker on each of worker terminals 30-1 to 30-n, in the case of updating a program, a number of lines of source codes or the like is collected by an agent process and work information is prepared. In a managing server 11, the work information is collected from each of work terminals 30-1 to 30-n and on the basis of this collected work information, the progress information is prepared and reported to each of worker terminals 30-1 to 30-n. In each of worker terminals 30-1 to 30-n where the notice of such progress information is received, the individual progress situations of progress managing viewers 31-1 to 31-n and entire progress situations are updated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a software development automatic management system and a software development automatic management program for automatically managing the progress of software development.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, a software development work process includes a process of establishing specifications in a basic design, a functional design, a detailed design, etc., a process of coding a program based on the specifications, and a process of developing the program according to the specifications. Confirming whether or not to operate, and correcting the generated defect.

[0003] Of these, the steps having the coding of the program are usually performed, especially when the development scale is large.
Performed by multiple people. By performing this coding operation in parallel by a plurality of persons, the number of development days can be reduced.

[0004] In recent years, there are tools (for example, CASE tools) that support development throughout the software development life cycle. In particular, in the computer phase, support tools have been developed for reusing program resources and automatically generating codes from specifications in both methods for structuring and object programming.

[0005] However, the progress management of the coding phase is particularly essential and important when creating a large-scale software product, but it is difficult to automate the progress because it is difficult to quantify or qualify the progress. Was. Therefore, conventionally, each person in charge determines the progress rate by his / her own judgment, taking into account the development scale, etc., and describes it separately in a report or center file. At the same time, it was decided to grasp the overall situation.

Under these circumstances, various improvements and proposals have been made for techniques for automatically managing the progress of the computer phase, similarly to software development support tools. For example, an example of a conventional technique for automatically collecting progress information in software development is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-250155.
It is disclosed as a progress information automatic collection method.

[0007] According to the progress information automatic collection method disclosed in this publication, the management system creates a rule for the timing of collecting the progress information and transmits the rule to the work system, and the work system performs the progress in accordance with the rule. Enter the information, and the management system will
Progress information is automatically collected from the working system. As a result, unified management of the progress information in the management system becomes possible.

A conventional example for realizing the process management of software development is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-153137 as a process management system. In the process management system disclosed in this publication, the worker terminal uses a standard work item for each work unit used for calculating the progress rate, for example, “this progress”.
Preparing worksheets and “probable dates” in a worksheet, and the administrator terminal collects, collects, and manages standard work items entered and updated by each person at the worker terminal via a communication line. And As a result, totalization for each standard work item and collective management in the administrator terminal become possible.

[0009]

However, in the conventional automatic progress information collecting method, a manager determines a qualitative rule and obtains a progress rate based on the rule. Then, in order to determine the rule, it is necessary for the manager to have a considerable amount of knowledge on the work performance and the like of each worker. For this reason, in consideration of the amount of knowledge of the manager, the number of workers that can be managed by the conventional progress information automatic collection method is limited to a few to a dozen or so.

In the conventional process management system, standard work items include "this progress" and "progress".
These are manually input by the worker at the worker terminal. For this reason, the worker has to input information for managing the progress in addition to the normal work, which is troublesome.

Further, this conventional process management system includes:
Each value of the standard work item was determined and input / updated by the operator's own judgment. Therefore, the standard work items input at the worker terminal are not calculated quantitatively and qualitatively, and the total value of each standard work item at the manager terminal is poor in reliability.

In recent years, similar to software development support tools, it has become possible to relatively easily automate coding performed by a computer using another software on the computer. further,
If detailed specifications are established in the upstream process of software development, it is possible to predict the development scale and man-hours in the downstream process, particularly in coding. That is, by performing detailed design in the upstream process, the progress of the coding work in the downstream process can be grasped quantitatively and qualitatively by the source code line.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and enables management of several hundred or more workers irrespective of the level of knowledge of a manager, as well as input of progress information by the worker. Aims to provide a software development automatic management system and a software development automatic management program that can save time and create progress information quantitatively and qualitatively and enable highly reliable viewing and confirmation of progress information. I do.

An example of another prior art relating to a software development system is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-120000 as a progress management system for software manufacturing and testing. The software manufacturing / test progress management system disclosed in this publication automatically collects data necessary for manufacturing / test progress management at an operator terminal, and displays the collected data at the operator terminal. Supporting progress management. Therefore, since the configuration is different from the management of the progress of a plurality of worker terminals in the manager terminal, the above-mentioned object could not be achieved even in the conventional example.

[0015]

In order to achieve the above object, an automatic software development management system according to claim 1 of the present invention comprises: a worker terminal for performing software development work; and a work related to the work from the worker terminal. An automatic software development management system having an administrator terminal for collecting information and a communication line connecting the operator terminal and the administrator terminal, wherein the operator terminal creates work information based on a program coded in the work. The manager terminal is configured to create progress information on the progress of the work based on the work information collected from the worker terminal.

When the software development automatic management system is configured as described above, the agent process of the worker terminal automatically creates work information based on the coded program. This saves time and effort.

Further, the work information is created not based on the judgment of the operator but on the basis of the coded program amount. Therefore, since the work information is created quantitatively and qualitatively, the reliability can be improved.

Further, in the software development automatic management system according to the second aspect, the agent process creates the work information based on the actual work man-hour and / or the number of source code lines regarding the coded program. With this configuration of the software development automatic management system, work information can be created based on quantifiable data such as the actual work man-hours and the number of source code lines related to the coded program. Therefore, the reliability of work information can be improved.

Further, in the software development automatic management system according to the third aspect, the agent process creates work information and transmits it to the manager terminal every time the coded program is updated.
When the software development automatic management system has such a configuration, the agent process of the worker terminal is
Since the work information is created and transmitted periodically and automatically, the worker does not need to perform data input and transmission processing for progress management at the worker terminal. Therefore, it is possible to save a worker's labor for progress management.

Further, in the software development automatic management system according to the present invention, the manager terminal has a progress management master file for storing work information and progress information for each worker. With such a configuration of the software development automatic management system, the manager terminal can perform progress management for each worker. Then, the manager terminal can provide the progress information created quantitatively and qualitatively to the worker terminal as needed. For this reason, both the manager and the worker can browse and confirm the highly reliable progress information.

Further, the work information and the progress information are stored in the progress management master file. Of these, the work information is automatically created in the worker terminal, while the progress information is created based on the work information. You. That is, the work information and the progress information are automatically and quantitatively created regardless of the amount of knowledge of the manager regarding the work performance of the worker and the like. Therefore, in the software development automatic management system of the present invention, if a progress management master file for storing progress information and the like can be created, it is possible to manage about several hundred or more workers.

Further, in the automatic software development management system according to the fifth aspect, the worker terminal has a viewer for displaying progress information from the manager terminal. With this configuration of the software development automatic management system, the progress information sent from the administrator terminal can be reflected on the viewer, so that the worker can automatically view the highly reliable progress information in real time.・ Can be confirmed.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a software development automatic management program for causing a worker terminal to execute a process of creating work information relating to the work and transmitting the work information to the manager terminal in the software development work. The program is configured to create work information based on the actual work man-hours and / or the number of source code lines related to the program coded in the work.

With such a configuration of the software development automatic management program, a process for creating work information based on the actual work man-hours and the number of source code lines of the development program that can be quantified and qualitatively performed is performed by an operator terminal. Can be executed. Therefore, by executing the software development automatic management program, work information can be created quantitatively and qualitatively, and the reliability of progress information created based on the work information can be enhanced.

[0025]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, an embodiment of a software development automatic management system and a software development automatic management program of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the software development automatic management system of the present embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 1, the software development automatic management system 1 includes an administrator terminal 10 and a history server 20.
And worker terminals 30-1 to 30-n and a communication line 40. Here, the manager terminal 10 is an information processing device used by a manager of software development or the like, and may be a personal computer, a notebook computer, or the like.

However, in the present invention, the administrator terminal 10
Has a management server 11 as shown in FIG. The progress management master file 11-1 is created in the management server 11 when software development is started, particularly when development information relating to software development is input in the management server 11.

This progress management master file 11-1 is
Development information indicating the development scale of each person in charge, prediction results such as required man-hours, information on current work in each of the work terminals 30-1 to 30-n (work information), progress information indicating the progress of each worker Save and so on. Further, the progress management master file 11-1 is deleted when the administrator terminal 10 receives from the history server 20 a notification of completion of storing the development result.

The development information includes the development scale of each person in charge assigned by the manager, the name of the person in charge, the date of experience, and the like. In addition, the prediction results such as the required man-hours are stored in the history server 2
0 means an estimate of required man-hours and the like predicted based on the development information.

Further, the work information is stored in each work terminal 30 based on the actual work man-hours and the amount of developed source code.
-1 to 30-n. In addition, the progress information includes an individual or overall development scale, development status, development progress rate, required man-hours, actual man-hours, man-hour digestibility, and the like.

The management server 11 has a resident master file process 11-2. The master file process 11-2 includes a progress management master file 11-1.
This software manages and updates each information. This master file process 11-2 is executed by the worker terminal 30.
-1 to 30-n are received and reflected in the progress management master file 11-1.
The progress information is transmitted to 1 to 30-n.

The history server 20 can be a workstation server that retains the actual development man-hours of the products whose development has been completed and the development skills of the person in charge, and has a development history database 21. Development history database 21
Is the development scale for each completed developer,
The development man-hours and the like are recorded as development information. This recorded development information is used for software productivity management, estimation of new software development man-hours, and the like.

The worker terminals 30-1 to 30-n are information processing devices of a personal computer for providing a program development environment, and are progress management viewers 31-1 to 31-n.
have. Progress management viewers 31-1 to 31-n
The (viewer) has a function of displaying individual persons in charge and the overall progress status, and reflects the progress information notified from the management server 11 to agent processes 32-1 to 32-n described later. The progress management viewer 31-1
The reflection of the progress information in .about.31-n is counted as the number of work steps while the program development environment is running.

The worker terminals 30-1 to 30-n have an agent process 31- for monitoring progress information.
1-31 to n are resident. Further, the worker terminal 30
In -1 to 30-n, a coding operation is performed by a worker (programmer) using a program development environment, and a source file is held under a specific directory. Although specific directories and source files are not shown in FIG. 1, the worker terminals 30-1 to 30-n
Is created.

Agent processes 31-1 to 31-n
Periodically monitors the status of the directory that stores the source files. And agent process 3
If there is a change in the state of the source file (the number of source lines, etc.), 1-1 to 31-n notifies the management server 11 of the administrator terminal 10 of the work information via the communication line 40.

An example of a conventional technique for collecting information in a setting agent is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 10-243046 as a user environment adaptive application automatic setting method. In the user environment adaptive application automatic setting method disclosed in this publication, a setting agent of a worker terminal collects information about an application and the like, and determines application parameters based on the collected information.

However, the setting agent in the conventional user environment adaptive application automatic setting method needs to collect information on the user environment unique to the worker terminal. For this reason, the function configuration of the setting agent is complicated, and the versatility of the setting agent is poor.

As the communication line 40, any conventionally known public line, commercial line or dedicated line can be used. In the present invention, the communication line 40 is configured by an intranet network.

Next, the operation of the automatic software development management system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the software development automatic management system according to the present embodiment.

In the manager terminal 10, necessary items represented by the development scale, the name of the person in charge, and the experience of each person in charge are:
The information is input as development information (step 10). In the management server 11 of the manager terminal 10, the progress management master file 11-
1 is created (step 11), and the development information is transmitted to the history server 20 (step 12).

In the history server 20, the management server 11
Is recorded in the development history database 21 (step 13). Further, based on the received development information, the required man-hours and the like of each person in charge are estimated (estimation of the required man-hours and the like), and the prediction result is stored in the management server 11.
(Step 14).

In the management server 11, the history server 20
Is stored in the progress management master file 11-1 (step 15). At this time, in the progress management master file 11-1, the prediction result to be saved is reflected on the information already saved by the master file process 11-2.

When software development is started in the software development automatic management system 1 and coding is started by a worker (programmer) in the worker terminal 30-1, the coded program is converted into a source code. Is saved in a specific directory or source file (step 1)
6).

In the worker terminals 30-1 to 30-n, a specific directory is regularly monitored by an agent process. In this monitoring, when a program update is recognized, the number of source code lines and the like are collected. In the worker terminals 30-1 to 30-n, the number of source code lines and the like are collected by updating the program, and work information is created based on the collected number of source code lines and the like. The management server 11 of the terminal 10 is notified (step 17).

In the management server 11, the worker terminal 30
The work information notified from -1 is sent to and saved in the progress management master file 11-1 (step 18). Also, based on the notified work information, the progress rate of each person in charge, the overall progress rate, etc. are recalculated (created) as progress information.
Is done.

The created progress information is notified to all of the worker terminals 30-1 to 30-n that are performing the same development (step 19). In the worker terminals 30-1 to 30-n that have been notified of the progress information, the individual progress status and the overall progress status displayed by the progress management viewers 31-1 to 31-n are updated by the agent process. (Step 20, Step 21).

Thereafter, all worker terminals 30-1 to 30-3
When the coding is completed at 0-n and the individual progress rate and the overall progress rate become 100%, the development is performed from the management server 11 of the administrator terminal 10 to the history server 20 in order to complete the coding phase. The number and the development result (for example, the development man-hour of each person in charge, the total development man-hour, etc. actually spent) are transmitted (step 22).

In the history server 20, the received development result is stored in the development history database 2 using the development number as a key.
1 (step 23). Then, a notification that the saving is completed is transmitted to the administrator terminal 10 (step 24). The progress management master file 11-1 is deleted in the management server 11 of the administrator terminal 10 that has received the notification of the completion of storing the development result (step 25).

The automatic collection of work information and the creation of progress information in the software development automatic management system of the present invention are not limited to the system for managing the progress of software development. The present invention can also be realized in a management system, an HTML-type large-scale page creation project management system, a map development management system of a map information system, and the like.
However, these systems can be constructed by accumulating predetermined necessary items in the history server and changing the collection pattern of the agent process.

In each of the above-described embodiments, the work information creation processing, the progress information creation processing, the required man-hours, etc. prediction processing of the computer (the worker terminal, the manager terminal, the history server) are executed by the software development automatic management program. You. The software development automatic management program, when read by the computer, sends a command to each component of the computer, and performs predetermined processing, for example, work information creation processing of an operator terminal, progress information creation processing of an administrator terminal, a history server. For example, a prediction process of required man-hours and the like are performed.

That is, the work information creation process, the progress information creation process, the prediction process of required man-hours, and the like are executed by an operator terminal, an administrator terminal, and a history server in cooperation with the software development automatic management program and the computer. .

It should be noted that the software development automatic management program for executing the work information creation processing and the like is stored in the ROM of the computer and in a computer-readable recording medium such as an external storage device and a portable recording medium. Can be stored. The external storage device is a CD-
It refers to a memory expansion device that incorporates a storage medium such as a ROM and is externally connected to an operator terminal or an administrator terminal. On the other hand, a portable recording medium is a recording medium that can be mounted on a recording medium drive (drive device) and is portable, and includes, for example, a flexible disk, a memory card, and a magneto-optical disk.

The software development automatic management program recorded on the recording medium is loaded into the RAM of the computer and executed by the CPU. With this execution, the work information creation processing and the like in the present embodiment described above are performed. In addition, when the software development automatic management program is loaded on a computer, the software development automatic management program held on another computer is
It can also be downloaded to its own RAM or external storage device using a communication line. The downloaded software development automatic management program is also executed by the CPU, and executes the work information creation processing and the like in the present embodiment.

[0054]

As described above, according to the present invention, the agent process of the worker terminal automatically creates work information based on a coded program.
The operator can save the trouble of inputting data in creating work information. The work information is not determined by the operator but is created based on the coded program amount. Therefore, quantitative and qualitative work information can be created, and the reliability of the work information and the reliability of the progress information created based on the work information can be improved.

Further, by creating work information based on quantifiable data such as the actual work man-hours and the number of source code lines concerning the coded program, the reliability of the work information and the progress information can be improved. it can. Further, every time the coded program is updated by the agent process, the work information is created and transmitted to the administrator terminal, so that the work information is created and transmitted periodically and automatically. The worker does not need to perform data input and transmission processing for progress management at the worker terminal. Therefore, it is possible to save the operator's trouble of terminal operation related to progress management.

Further, by having the progress management master file for storing the work information and the progress information for each worker, the manager terminal can perform the progress management for each worker. Then, the manager terminal can also provide the progress information created quantitatively and qualitatively to the worker terminal as needed. Therefore, both the administrator and the worker
You can view and confirm highly reliable progress information.

Further, in the progress management master file, work information automatically created in the worker terminal and progress information created based on the work information are stored. Then, the work information and the progress information are automatically and quantitatively created irrespective of the amount of knowledge of the manager regarding the work performance of the worker and the like. Therefore, in the software development automatic management system of the present invention, if a progress management master file that stores progress information and the like can be created, it is possible to manage about several hundred or more workers.

Further, since the worker terminal has the viewer, the worker can view the highly reliable progress information transmitted from the manager terminal, that is, the individual or overall progress status of the downstream process in the software development. Can be viewed and confirmed automatically and in real time.

The software development automatic management program sends a predetermined command to each component of a computer (an operator terminal, an administrator terminal, a history server) so that the computer can perform a work information creation process and a progress information creation process. , The required man-hours, etc. can be predicted. Thereby, the work information creation processing and the like are executed by the worker terminal, the manager terminal, and the history server in which the software development automatic management program and the computer cooperate.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an automatic software development management system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an operation procedure diagram showing an operation in the software development automatic management system of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a screen configuration diagram showing progress information displayed on a progress management viewer of the worker terminal.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Automatic software development management system 10 Administrator terminal 11 Management server 11-1 Progress management master file 11-2 Master file process 20 History server 21 Development history database 30-1 to 30-n Worker terminal 31-1 to 31-n Progress management viewer 32-1 to 32-n Agent process 40 Communication line

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An operator terminal for performing software development work, an administrator terminal for collecting work information on the operation from the worker terminal, and a communication line connecting the operator terminal and the administrator terminal. An automatic software development management system having: the worker terminal has an agent process for creating the work information based on a program coded in the work; and the manager terminal collected from the worker terminal. A software development automatic management system, which creates progress information on the progress of the work based on the work information. 2. The software development automatic management system according to claim 1, wherein the agent process creates the work information based on actual work man-hours and / or the number of source code lines regarding the coded program. . 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the agent process creates the work information and transmits the work information to the manager terminal every time the coded program is updated. Software development automatic management system. 4. The software development automatic management according to claim 1, wherein the manager terminal has a progress management master file for storing the work information and the progress information for each worker. system. 5. The software development automatic management system according to claim 1, wherein said worker terminal has a viewer for displaying said progress information from said manager terminal. 6. A software development automatic management program for causing a worker terminal to execute a process of creating work information related to the work and transmitting the work information to the manager terminal in the work of software development, the program coded in the work. A software development automatic management program, wherein the work information is created based on the actual work man-hours and / or the number of source code lines.