Work item tagging: Communicating concerns in collaborative software development

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-34

  Treude, Christoph ^a   Storey, Margaret Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

articulation work; collaboration; software development; Tagging; task management; work items

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DEVELOPMENT TASKS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES; TAGGING; TASK MANAGEMENT; TOOL SUPPORT; WORK ITEMS;

GROUPWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84856536672     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2010.91     Document Type: Article

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