Software development work item management system

A computer program product for resolving conflicts in software under development, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform:

• acquiring, for each of a plurality of work items each representing a work to change at least one file, designation of a file associated with the work item;
• recording the occurrence of a change associated with a plurality of files and a history of changes made to the plurality of files;
• detecting dependencies among the plurality of files using a static analysis utility program without running build;
• recording a name of the changed file on an operatively connected recording medium, and record an occurrence of change in association with the file on the recording medium, wherein the occurrence of change occurs within a predetermined timing and based at least in part on the detecting of the dependencies;
• determining, on the basis of the dependencies among the files, whether there is a dependency relationship between at least two work items based on the dependency relationship between the files detected by the dependency detection unit and generating a related link between the two work items;
• in response to a change made to a file associated with one work item, generating a testing work item for checking whether the change will cause a problem on a changed result by another work item having a dependency relationship with the one work item, the testing work item based on the other work item;
• and
• notifying users associated with other work item(s) having dependency relationship(s) with the one work item, of the occurrence of the changing work at a predetermined timing, and
• wherein the acquiring further comprises reading a design document in which related files and changes made to the files are described for each of a plurality of work items, to identify the files related to the respective work items, wherein the design document is a work breakdown structure that describes work items through an entire software developing process and describes files related to the respective work items and any changes made to the plurality of files, and for each of the work items described in the design document, associating the each of the work items with the plurality of files related to the work item and the files whose changes are described.

A method performed by a computer having a processor coupled to memory-stored executable instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform implementation of the method, comprising:

• acquiring, for each of a plurality of work items each representing a work to change at least one file, designation of a file associated with the work item;
• recording the occurrence of a change associated with a plurality of files and a history for changes made to the plurality of files;
• detecting dependencies among the plurality of files using a static analysis utility program without running build;
• recording a name of the changed file on an operatively connected recording medium, and record an occurrence of change in association with the file on the recording medium, wherein the occurrence of change occurs within a predetermined timing and based at least in part on the detecting of the dependencies;
• determining, on the basis of the dependencies among the files, whether there is a dependency relationship between at least two work items based on the dependency relationship between the files detected by the dependency detection unit and generate a related link between the two work items;
• in response to a change made to a file associated with one work item, generating a testing work item for checking whether the change will cause a problem on a changed result by another work item having a dependency relationship with the one work item, the testing work item based on the other work item;
• and
• notifying users associated with other work item(s) having dependency relationship(s) with the one work item, of the occurrence of the changing work at a predetermined timing, and
• wherein the acquiring further comprises reading a design document in which related files and changes made to the files are described for each of a plurality of work items, to identify the files related to the respective work items, wherein the design document is a work breakdown structure that describes work items through an entire software developing process and describes files related to the respective work items and any changes made to the plurality of files, and for each of the work items described in the design document, associating the each of the work items with the plurality of files related to the work item and the files whose changes are described.