Towards and Beyond Being There in Collaborative Software Development

• Published in: Collaborative Software Engineering pp. 135 - 151
• Main Author: Dewan, Prasun
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Subjects: Awareness; Conflict notifications; Mining; Recommendations; Synchronous programming; Tagging; Visualization

Research has shown that the productivity of the members of a software team depends on the degree to which they are co-located. In this chapter, we present distributed tools that both (a) try to virtually support these forms of collaboration, and (b) go beyond co-located software development by autom...