The WISE Project Management System
The Web-Integrated Software metrics Environment (WISE) is the first
WWW-based project management and metrics system available on the WWW.
WISE is a WWW-based tool that provides a framework for managing
software development projects across the Web. Programmers and
managers can log issue reports, track the status of issues, and view
project metrics using standard WWW browsers. WISE provides a
non-intrusive method to coordinate project activities and allow
software development teams to view their progress and performance.
ALPHA SITES: Even though the
Alpha distribution is available to the public, we will provide limited
support to our Alpha sites. For those Alpha sites that have been
patient (THANKS!), we will work with them to hand-hold the
installation of WISE.
After the flood of initial interest in WISE, we had to make some
strategic changes to our development plans. We apologize for the 2
month slip in scheduled release of WISE, but we want to release a
usable, well-tested tool. After making major changes to the WISE
implementation, we have been using WISE internally for the last 2
months to manage our own projects. Some features of the new WISE
implementation include:
- Easy Configuration - we have developed a WISE
Programming Language for configuring WISE. To customize WISE for
your organization, you only need to change a single configuration
file. Also, we have added MANY new field types including html fields,
selects, multi and single radio buttons, log fields, and more!
- Extensible Metrics -
we have developed a modular metrics package that allows for the
addition of new metrics analysis in the future. In addition to the
current histograms, we will also release a trend plot, Gantt chart,
and trend analysis packages.
- Based on a Common
Database Package - under actual use of the previous version of
WISE, we had some performance problems with the Oracle database
backend (nothing about Oracle in particular, but mostly because it was
overloaded at our site by othe projects). We reimplemented WISE on
top of the David
Hughes mSQL database package. This improved performance and makes
WISE usable by man more organizations.
- Better Performance -
Thanks to mSQL, WISE runs
much faster at our site. Based on our measurements, we achieved an
order of magnitude increase in display of To-Do Lists and individual
issues.
For more information on WISE, we have added a comments
systemfor WISE (see Comments below) based on a real-time,
operational WISE system! (Logon as anonymous with an empty (blank)
password) This active system will allow you to learn about WISE, add
your comments about WISE, register yourself on our mailing list,
submit new features, etc. NOTE: The role of "anonymous" in the
comment system will only let you view comments made by yourself and
others. All requests, questions, etc. are currently visible only to
the system admin role. This could change, however, since WISE can be
easily customized and reconfigured. I may automate an FAQ list this
way in the future.
The purpose of the WISE project is to demonstrate the viability of
metrics collection and use in our projects. Our project was inspired
by the Experience Factory work by Basili, McGarry and Pajersky at the
NASA Software
Engineering Laboratory (SEL). WISE was developed as a "practice
what you preach" approach to getting software organizations to collect
and use metrics in the management of small and large scale software
development efforts.
The WISE project is sponsored through a cooperative agreement between
the NASA Software IV&V Facility
in Fairmont, West Virginia and the Concurrent Engineering Research Center
(CERC) at West Virginia
University in Morgantown, West Virginia.
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