Communication, collaboration, and bugs: The social nature of issue tracking in small, collocated teams

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 291-300

  Bertram, Dane ^a   Voida, Amy ^a   Greenberg, Saul ^a   Walker, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Issue tracking; Shared knowledge; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

BUG REPORTS; COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATIONS; FOCAL POINTS; ISSUE TRACKING; PROJECT MANAGERS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; REAL-WORLD PRACTICE; SOCIAL PROCESS; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; SOFTWARE TEAMS; TRACKING SYSTEM;

COMMUNICATION; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 77950896017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1718918.1718972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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