Software engineering dashboards: Types, risks, and future

• Main Authors: STOREY, Margaret-Anne, TREUDE, Christoph
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8957; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9960/viewcontent/chapter19b.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The large number of artifacts created or modified in a software project and the flood of information exchanged in the process of creating a software product call for tools that aggregate this data to communicate higher-level insights to all stakeholders involved. In many projects—in software engineering as well as in other domains—dashboards are used to communicate information that may bring insights on the productivity of project activities and other aspects. Stephen Few defines a dashboard as “a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives which fits entirely on a single computer screen so it can be monitored at a glance”