A Lightweight Customized Build Chain Visualization Approach Applied in Industry

To visualize the progress of the software development and to foster the awareness of software quality, visualizations of the software build chain have been established in recent years and can be applied in the software service domain easily. Other domains like mechanical engineering are lacking a comprehensive view of the software build chain, since existing of-the-shelf solutions do not support the integration of software quality assurance activities outside the responsibility of the used CI tool adequately. In this paper we present a prototype of a tool that supports the requirement of an extended build chain visualization. In close cooperation with an industrial partner company, we implemented a flexible, adaptable, web based visualization system called DevOpsView and we discuss our findings about the future of customized build chain visualization systems.