ICS2002-12-04: Configuration Management and Hackystat: Initial steps to relating organizational and individual development - C. Tomosada, B. Leung

Hackystat is a software development metrics collection tool that focuses on individual developers. Hackystat is able to provide a developer with a personal analysis of his or her unique processes. Source code configuration management (SCM) systems, on the other hand, are a means of storage for source code in a development community and serve as controller for what each individual may contribute to the community. We created a Hackystat sensor for CVS (an SCM system) in the hopes of bridging the gap between these two very different, yet related software applications. It was our hope to use the data we collected to address the issue of development conflicts that often arise in organizational development environments. We found, however, that neither application, Hackystat or CVS, could be easily reconfigured to our needs.

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