Empirical evidence of the benefits of workspace awareness in software configuration management

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 113-123

  Sarma, Anita ^a   Redmiles, David ^b   Van Der Hoek, André ^b  

^a Institute for Software Research ^*  (United States)

^b 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflicts; Evaluation; Parallel work; Software configuration management; User experiments; Workspace awareness

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS TOOL; BENEFICIAL EFFECTS; CONFLICT RESOLUTION; CONFLICTS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70349581383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1453101.1453118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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