Information needs for integration decisions in the release process of large-scale parallel development

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1371-1380

  Phillips, Shaun ^a   Ruhe, Guenther ^a   Sillito, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

decision support; integration; parallel development; release management; team meetings; version control

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORTS; PARALLEL DEVELOPMENT; RELEASE MANAGEMENT; TEAM MEETINGS; VERSION CONTROL;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTEGRATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MANAGERS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84858275263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145408     Document Type: Conference Paper

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