DETERMINING IMPORTANCE OF AN ARTIFACT IN A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

In an approach to determining an importance value of an artifact in a collaborative software development environment, a computer determines a snapshot of a collaborative software development environment, wherein the snapshot includes an artifact and at least one relationship between the artifact and one or more nodes in one or more hierarchical levels. The computer then determines, based, at least in part, on the snapshot, a plurality of parameters for the artifact in the collaborative software development environment. The computer calculates, based, at least in part, on the plurality of parameters, an importance value of the artifact.