Connecting Programming Environments to Support Ad-Hoc Collaboration

Hegde, Rajesh M.; Dewan, Prasun

doi:10.1109/ase.2008.28

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“…(The average project size was 11'776 lines of code in 68 classes). [19] detect, inspect no no real-time no yes no no no CollabVS [16] detect detect, inspect yes real-time yes yes no no no Crystal [4] detect detect no commit no no yes no no WeCode [15] detect detect no saving no no yes no no CloudStudio [10] prevent, detect, inspect detect, inspect no real-time yes yes yes no yes Collabode [14] no no -no no no no yes no Cloud9 [6] no no -no no no no yes no whether it supports detection of direct conflicts and of indirect conflicts (cf. [26]); whether conflict reports may include false positives; whether conflicts are available in real-time or upon commit; the granularity of the awareness system (line, class, or branch); whether collaborative editing supports shared sessions a la Google Doc and automatic merging of versions.…”

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“…These experiments normally involve [16], [10], [26] small (2 or 3 people) teams working on controlled artificial exercises (such as refactoring) that can be carried out in a short programming session. In other cases [4], the experiments used regression data from open-source software repositories to estimate the effectiveness of their conflict detection mechanisms.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Awareness and Merge Conflicts in Distributed Software Development

Estler

Nordio

Furia

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2014 IEEE 9th International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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Abstract-Collaborative software development requires programmers to coordinate their work and merge individual contributions into a consistent shared code base. Traditionally, coordination follows a series of "update-modify-commit" cycles, where merge conflicts arise upon committing if individual modifications have diverged and must be explicitly reconciled. Researchers have been suggesting that providing timely awareness information about "who's changing what" may not only help deal with conflicts but, more generally, improve the effectiveness of collaboration.This paper investigates the impact of awareness information in the context of globally distributed software development. Based on an analysis of data from 105 student developers constituting 12 development teams located in different countries, we analyze, among other things: 1) the frequency of merge conflicts and insufficient awareness; 2) the impact of distribution on team awareness; 3) the perceived impact of conflicts and lack of awareness on productivity, motivation, and project punctuality. Our findings include: 1) lack of awareness occurs more frequently than merge conflicts; 2) information about remote team members is missing roughly as often as information about co-located ones; 3) insufficient awareness information affects more negatively programmer's performance than merge conflicts.

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Awareness and Merge Conflicts in Distributed Software Development

Estler

Nordio

Furia

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE 9th International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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“…One approach to help distributed teams is described in [1]. Developers use a programming environment that allows them to be aware of the methods on which their team members are working.…”

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Automatically identifying that distributed programmers are stuck

Carter

Dewan

2009

2009 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects on Software Engineering

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“…Recently, there has been a significant effort on crafting tools and techniques to promote team awareness in a collaborative context [13], [14], [15], [7], [16].…”

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“…Recently, there has been an increased interest in addressing such collaboration issues, which resulted in full-fledged collaborative software development environments, such as IBM's jazz.net [6] or Microsoft's CollabVS [7]. These are industrial environments, especially suited for distributed and collaborative software development.…”

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Supporting Collaboration Awareness with Real-Time Visualization of Development Activity

Lanza

Hattori

Guzzi

2010

2010 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering

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Abstract-In the context of multi-developer projects, where several people are contributing code, developers must deal with concurrent development. Collaboration among developers assumes a fundamental role, and failing to address it can result, for example, in shipping delays. We argue that tool support for collaborative software development augments the level of awareness of developers, and consequently, help them to collaborate and coordinate their activities.In this context, we present an approach to augment awareness by recovering development information in real time and broadcasting it to developers in the form of three lightweight visualizations. Scamp, the Eclipse plug-in supporting this, is part of our Syde tool to support collaboration. We illustrate the usage of Scamp in the context of two multi-developer projects.

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Connecting Programming Environments to Support Ad-Hoc Collaboration

Cited by 53 publications

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Awareness and Merge Conflicts in Distributed Software Development

Awareness and Merge Conflicts in Distributed Software Development

Automatically identifying that distributed programmers are stuck

Supporting Collaboration Awareness with Real-Time Visualization of Development Activity

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