A review of awareness in distributed collaborative software engineering

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1107-1133

  Omoronyia, Inah ^a   Ferguson, John ^b   Roper, Marc ^b   Wood, Murray ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

context awareness; distributed teamwork; empirical studies; global software development

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS INFORMATION; CO-LOCATED; COLLABORATIVE PROCESS; COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARES; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; DISTRIBUTED TEAMWORK; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; INTEGRAL PART; SHARED UNDERSTANDING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; TIME AND SPACE; TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GROUPWARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 78249233280     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.1005     Document Type: Article

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