Automatic Release Notes Generation

Abstract

Release Notes (RNs) are one of the important artifacts in software development and maintenance. RNs are required when a new release/version of a software project is planned to deploy or launch. RNs are the documentation of all the changes made to the new project It contains description of newly added features, bug fixes, improvements, removed functionality, library changes etc. Generating these notes manually is very complex and time consuming task. In this research we present an automatic approach for generation of RNs. The intention of this research is to generate automatic RNs for Node JS project. The implementation of the proposed approach is done in Python programming language. Our system extract changes from Git repository, summarizes these changes, get deprecated features, library changes, fetches issues from issue tracker and link these issues to code etc. The system hierarchically setup these changes and produce an output in a word document. This approach is the state of the art approach for node Js projects. We evaluate our results manually from 15 industry software Engineers. The results obtained from our system shows that these RNs are very good and accurate then ones produced manually.