Seeking the source: Software source code as a social and technical artifact

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 197-206

  De Souza, Cleidson ^a,c   Froehlich, Jon ^b   Dourish, Paul ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Social networks; Socio technical systems; Software repositories

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE WORK; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DISTRIBUTED GROUPS; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES; ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE ELEMENTS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; SOFTWARE SOURCE CODES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TECHNICAL ARTIFACTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77950302776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1099203.1099239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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