Supporting Collaboration Awareness with Real-time Visualization of Development Activity

Title

Supporting Collaboration Awareness with Real-time Visualization of Development Activity

 Author

Lanza, M.
Hattori, L.
Guzzi, A.

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

 Department

Software Technology

 Date

2010-12-31

 Abstract

In the context of multi-developer projects, where several people are contributing code, developers must deal with concurrent development. Collaboration among developers assumes a fundamental role, and failing to address it can result, for example, in shipping delays. We argue that tool support for collaborative software development augments the level of awareness of developers, and consequently, help them to collaborate and coordinate their activities. In this context, we present an approach to augment awareness by recovering development information in real time and broadcasting it to developers in the form of three lightweight visualizations. Scamp, the Eclipse plug-in supporting this, is part of our Syde tool to support collaboration. We illustrate the usage of Scamp in the context of two multi-developer projects. Preprint accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR2010), Madrid (Spain), 15-18 March, 2010, IEEE Computer Society, 2010.

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 Publisher

Delft University of Technology, Software Engineering Research Group

 ISSN

1872-5392

 Source

Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2010-002

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

report

 Rights

© 2010 The Author(s) . Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Software Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology
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