Collaboration Tools for Global Software Engineering

Lanubile, Filippo; Ebert, Christof; Prikladnicki, Rafael; Vizcaíno, Aurora

doi:10.1109/ms.2010.39

Cited by 187 publications

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“…Subversion implements a centralized repository architecture whereby a single central server hosts all project metadata. This facilitates distributed file sharing [11].…”

Section: Multitenancy Patterns For Cloud-hosted Gsd Toolsmentioning

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Evaluating Degrees of Multitenancy Isolation: A Case Study of Cloud-Hosted GSD Tools

Ochei

Bass

Petrovski

2015

2015 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing

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“…Subversion implements a centralized repository architecture whereby a single central server hosts all project metadata. This facilitates distributed file sharing [11].…”

Section: Multitenancy Patterns For Cloud-hosted Gsd Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating Degrees of Multitenancy Isolation: A Case Study of Cloud-Hosted GSD Tools

Ochei

Bass

Petrovski

2015

2015 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing

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“…Also, development-centered Wikis [Dagenais and Robillard 2010] also serve the purpose as a community portal. IBM Lotus Notes and Sharepoint are other systems that can be used as a Community Portal [Lanubile et al 2010].…”

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An Information Foraging Theory Perspective on Tools for Debugging, Refactoring, and Reuse Tasks

Fleming

Scaffidi

Piorkowski

et al. 2013

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.

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Theories of human behavior are an important but largely untapped resource for software engineering research. They facilitate understanding of human developers' needs and activities, and thus can serve as a valuable resource to researchers designing software engineering tools. Furthermore, theories abstract beyond specific methods and tools to fundamental principles that can be applied to new situations. Toward filling this gap, we investigate the applicability and utility of Information Foraging Theory (IFT) for understanding information-intensive software engineering tasks, drawing upon literature in three areas: debugging, refactoring, and reuse. In particular, we focus on software engineering tools that aim to support information-intensive activities, that is, activities in which developers spend time seeking information. Regarding applicability, we consider whether and how the mathematical equations within IFT can be used to explain why certain existing tools have proven empirically successful at helping software engineers. Regarding utility, we applied an IFT perspective to identify recurring design patterns in these successful tools, and consider what opportunities for future research are revealed by our IFT perspective.

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“…Software engineering projects depend on collaboration [19,24,30,31,45,51], as almost any non-trivial software requires the effort of multiple developers to design it, implement features, maintain revisions, and so on. Open Source Software (OSS) projects are examples of organized software development where collaboration is essential.…”

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Building it together: synchronous development in OSS

Xuan

Filkov

2014

Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering

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In distributed software development synchronized actions are important for completion of complex, interleaved tasks that require the abilities of multiple people. Synchronous development is manifested when file commits by two developers are close together in time and modify the same files. Here we propose quantitative methods for identifying synchronized activities in OSS projects, and use them to relate developer synchronization with effective productivity and communication. In particular, we define co-commit bursts and communication bursts, as intervals of time rich in co-commit and correspondence activities, respectively, and construct from them smoothed time series which can be, subsequently, correlated to discover synchrony. We find that synchronized co-commits between developers are associated with their effective productivity and coordination: during co-commit bursts, vs. at other times, the project size grows faster even though the overall coding effort slows down. We also find strong correlation between synchronized cocommits and communication, that is, for pairs of developers, more co-commit bursts are accompanied with more communication bursts, and their relationship follows closely a linear model. In addition, synchronized co-commits and communication activities occur very close together in time, thus, they can also be thought of as synchronizing each other. This study can help with better understanding collaborative mechanisms in OSS and the role communication plays in distributed software engineering.

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Collaboration Tools for Global Software Engineering

Cited by 187 publications

References 8 publications

Evaluating Degrees of Multitenancy Isolation: A Case Study of Cloud-Hosted GSD Tools

Evaluating Degrees of Multitenancy Isolation: A Case Study of Cloud-Hosted GSD Tools

An Information Foraging Theory Perspective on Tools for Debugging, Refactoring, and Reuse Tasks

Building it together: synchronous development in OSS

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