Appendix A. Reference Material

Story points are an abstract metric commonly used in Agile software development to estimate the level of effort needed to implement a feature or change.

Red Hat Application Migration Toolkit uses story points to express the level of effort needed to migrate particular application constructs, and the application as a whole. It does not necessarily translate to man-hours, but the value should be consistent across tasks.

Estimating the level of effort for the story points for a rule can be tricky. The following are the general guidelines RHAMT uses when estimating the level of effort required for a rule.

In addition to the level of effort, you can categorize migration tasks to indicate the severity of the task. The following categories are used to indicate whether a task must be completed or can be postponed.

For more information on categorizing tasks, see Using Custom Rule Categories.

RHAMT XML-based rules are located on GitHub at the following location: https://github.com/windup/windup-rulesets/tree/master/rules-reviewed.

Instructions to fork and clone the RHAMT rulesets repository to your local machine are provided on the Wiki.

Rules are grouped by target platform and function. When you create a new rule, it is helpful to find a rule that is similar to the one you need and use it as a starting template.

New rules are continually added, so it is a good idea to check back frequently to review the updates.

Revised on 2018-07-13 09:24:51 EDT