A Tool to Enhance Cooperation and Knowledge Transfer among Software Developers

Abstract

Software developers have been successfully tailoring software development methods according to the project situation and more so in small scale software development organizations. There is a need to share this knowledge with other developers who may be facing the same project situation so that they can benefit from other people experiences. In this paper, an approach to enhance cooperation among software developers, in terms of sharing the knowledge that was used successfully in past projects, is proposed. A web-based tool is developed that can assist in creation, storage and extraction of methods related with requirement elicitation phase. These methods are categorized according to certain criteria which helps in searching a method that will be most appropriate in a given project situation. This approach and tool can also be used for other software development activities.

Knowledge management in requirement elicitation: Situational methods view

“…Mishra et al [25] presented a web-based prototype that can assist in creating methods related with this phase and compared it with all the available tools in the literature. The present paper extends the work of Mishra et al [25] and Aydin and Mishra [24] in a substantial way. Here, the proposed approach and tool is validated by making it accessible to a group of senior software professionals working in 10 large software development organizations.…”

“…Aydin and Mishra [24] explored the use of SME in requirement elicitation phase and a preliminary proposal was put forth in the form of a brief communication on the topic. Mishra et al [25] presented a web-based prototype that can assist in creating methods related with this phase and compared it with all the available tools in the literature.…”