Overhearing conversations in global software engineering - Requirements and an implementation

ColiaborateCom 2011 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-8

  Dullemond, Kevin ^a   Van Gameren, Ben ^a   Van Solingen, Rini ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaborative Software Engineering; Communico; Global Software Engineering; Open Conversation Space; Overhearing Conversations; Requirements

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARES; COMMUNICO; GLOBAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; OPEN CONVERSATION SPACE; OVERHEARING CONVERSATIONS; REQUIREMENTS;

GROUPWARE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84857529982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2011.247099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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