Qt trial continues

Qt trial continues

From prototype to action

Qt cross-platform application framework is developed by an open developer community which consists of companies and independent application developers. The open developer community has multiple channels to report raise requirements. Jira, a public requirement management tool, is the biggest with more than 60 000 bugs reported by the community so far.

The problem: Duplicates and linking errors

The large amount of duplicates or very similar issues in the requirements database and, in addition, human errors in the linking of the issues burden requirements management and decision-making of the company. As there are no ready-made solutions available in the market for projects of the size and complexity that the Qt company handles, the company is tackling the problem by participating in a trial within the Openreq framework.

– As there are thousands and thousands of issues the database, determining their connection by hand would be inefficient and cumbersome. My role is to support the company with the integration of the tools and engines developed by the Openreq partners, especially the University of Helsinki, in the Openreq, explains Clara Marie Lüders from the Qt company.

The OpenReq project is looking for solutions

The Empirical Software Engineering Helsinki (ESE) research group has developed a prototype system that automatically analyses the interdependencies of requirements taking into account also their properties. On the other hand, Openreq team members in ESSI, the Department of Service and Information System Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, are at the same time concentrating on identifying duplicates. Clara is now working in a close collaboration with the Helsinki University research group to develop an interface that displays the dependencies between issues – which requirements depend on each other, which block each other and so on – for the Qt company.

The Qt trial within the Openreq begun this spring. The first and hopefully encouraging results will be available before the midterm review of the Openreq project in September 2018 in Brussels.