Effective communication of software development knowledge through community portals

SIGSOFT/FSE 2011 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 91-101

  Treude, Christoph ^a   Storey, Margaret Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community portal; Documentation; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

AS CONTENT; CLOSED SOURCE SOFTWARES; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; FEEDBACK OPTIONS; GROUNDED THEORY; KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROJECTS; SOFTWARE ORGANIZATION; SOFTWARE PROJECT; TECHNICAL ARTICLES; WEB-BASED COMMUNITIES;

COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FEEDBACK; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 80053195771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2025113.2025129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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