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

GROUP'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 147-156

  De Souza, Cleidson R ^a   Quirk, Stephen ^b   Trainer, Erik ^b   Redmiles, David F ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Collaborative software development; Coordination; Program dependencies; Social dependencies; Socio technical dependencies; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ARIADNE; COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; COORDINATION PROBLEMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PLUG-INS; SOCIOTECHNICAL; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

GROUPWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 56349087560     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1316624.1316646     Document Type: Conference Paper

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