Supporting collaborative software development through the visualization of socio-technical dependencies

Souza, Cleidson R. de; Quirk, Stephen; Trainer, Erik; Redmiles, David

doi:10.1145/1316624.1316646

Cited by 84 publications

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“…As affordances associate properties of objects and actors that give rise to interactions in a situated environment, then it may be possible to identify and graphically portray these data elements in various kinds of networked representations [61]. There is a growing trend in studies focusing on social networks or technical dependencies within FOSSD projects to render their data and associations as different kinds of networks [10]. As such, how best to visualize collaboration affordances would be an intriguing avenue for exploration.…”

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Collaboration Practices and Affordances in Free/Open Source Software Development

Scacchi

2010

Collaborative Software Engineering

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Abstract. This chapter examines collaborative work practices, development processes, project and community dynamics, and other socio-technical relationships in free and open source software development (FOSSD). It also describes what kinds of collaboration affordances facilitate collaborative work in FOSSD projects. It reviews a set of empirical studies of FOSSD that articulate different levels of analysis. Finally, there is discussion of limitations and constraints in understanding what collaboration practices and affordances arise in FOSSD studies and how they work, and then to emerging opportunities for future FOSSD studies.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaboration Practices and Affordances in Free/Open Source Software Development

Scacchi

2010

Collaborative Software Engineering

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“…Most development awareness tools address the code implementation and maintenance phase; occasionally also the testing phase. Their primary focus is typically on change management (e.g., ELVIN/Tickertape [4], SoftCHANGE [5]), conflict avoidance (e.g., Palantir [6], Codebook [7], RaisAware [8]), and understanding developer activities (e.g., FASTDash: [9], Jazz [10], Ariadne [11], Tesseract [12], ProxiScientia [13]). Figueiredo and de Souza [14] extend change impact analysis to design artifacts using traceability links.…”

Section: Collaboration Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards collaboration-centric pattern-based software development support

Dorn

Egyed

2013

2013 6th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE)

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Abstract-Software engineering activities tend to be loosely coupled to allow for flexibly reacting to unforeseen development complexity, requirements changes, and progress delays. This flexibility comes a the price of hidden dependencies among design and code artifacts that make it difficult or even impossible to assess change impact. Incorrect change propagation subsequently results in costly errors. This position paper proposes a novel approach based on monitoring engineering activities for subsequent high-level pattern detection. Patterns of (i) collaboration structures, (ii) temporal action sequences, and (iii) artifact consistency constraints serve as input to recommendation and automatic reconfiguration algorithms for ultimately avoiding and correcting artifact inconsistencies.

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“…An essential feature of the socio-technical congruence tools is the visualization of the communication patterns and the relationships between project participants. Previous work suggests that this type of communication visualizations can help developers as well as managers to keep track of the project status, be aware of the code dependencies and take the necessary decisions and actions [29].…”

Section: Communicationmentioning

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Adopting a Social Network Perspective in Global Software Development

Manteli¹,

Vliet²,

Hooff

2012

2012 IEEE Seventh International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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Abstract-In the past few years, software engineering researchers have adopted social network analysis techniques to understand collaboration patterns in global software teams. In this paper, we investigate current research in global software development where social network theory is used as an analysis technique. We do so through a systematic literature review where we collect and analyze previous work that adopt a social network perspective in distributed software development. We use the 3C collaboration model to classify our results based on the communication, coordination and cooperation aspects of global networks. Our results reveal two main coordination structures used in distributed teams, namely the clustering and the core-periphery structure. The analysis of the cooperation activities of the global networks reveal differences between planning and practice. Finally, several tools have been identified that aim to improve communication patterns among distributed team members.

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Supporting collaborative software development through the visualization of socio-technical dependencies

Cited by 84 publications

References 34 publications

Collaboration Practices and Affordances in Free/Open Source Software Development

Collaboration Practices and Affordances in Free/Open Source Software Development

Towards collaboration-centric pattern-based software development support

Adopting a Social Network Perspective in Global Software Development

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