Towards understanding twitter use in software engineering: Preliminary findings, ongoing challenges and future questions

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 31-36

  Bougie, Gargi ^a   Starke, Jamie ^a   Storey, Margaret Anne ^a   German, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Social media; Software development; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; ENGINEERING COMMUNITY; INFORMATION SHARING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; WEB 2.0;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79959550709     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1984701.1984707     Document Type: Article

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