Shared waypoints and social tagging to support collaboration in software development Export

@inproceedings{StoreyEtAl2006:SharedWaypoints, abstract = {This paper presents the conceptual design of TagSEA, a collaborative tool to support asynchronous software development. Our goal is to develop a lightweight source code annotation tool that enhances navigation, coordination, and capture of knowledge relevant to a software development team. Our design is inspired by combining ” waypoints” from geographical navigation with ” social tagging” from social bookmarking software to support coordination and communication among software developers. We describe the motivation behind this work, walk through the design and implementation, and report early feedback on how this lightweight tool supports collaborative software engineering activities. Finally, we suggest a number of new research directions that this topic exposes.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Storey, Margaret-Anne and Cheng, Li-Te and Bull, Ian and Rigby, Peter}, booktitle = {CSCW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work}, citeulike-article-id = {966554}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1180906}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180906}, comment = {Storey et al present a system for tagging java elements with arbitrary tags, and the means to search / jump to / and store sequences of tags to facilitate navigation. The system is one of minimal functionality, but large applicability, as tags and routes are very flexible. It seems likely to grow into something very useful as imaginative users start playing with it.}, doi = {10.1145/1180875.1180906}, isbn = {1-59593-249-6}, keywords = {code\_navigation, collaboration, cscw06, tagging}, location = {Banff, Alberta, Canada}, pages = {195--198}, posted-at = {2007-02-21 21:43:18}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Shared waypoints and social tagging to support collaboration in software development}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180906}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - StoreyEtAl2006:SharedWaypoints L3 - citeulike-article-id:966554 N2 - This paper presents the conceptual design of TagSEA, a collaborative tool to support asynchronous software development. Our goal is to develop a lightweight source code annotation tool that enhances navigation, coordination, and capture of knowledge relevant to a software development team. Our design is inspired by combining “waypoints” from geographical navigation with “social tagging” from social bookmarking software to support coordination and communication among software developers. We describe the motivation behind this work, walk through the design and implementation, and report early feedback on how this lightweight tool supports collaborative software engineering activities. Finally, we suggest a number of new research directions that this topic exposes. CY - Banff, Alberta, Canada SN - 1-59593-249-6 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 198 TI - Shared waypoints and social tagging to support collaboration in software development PB - ACM T2 - CSCW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work SP - 195 KW - code_navigation KW - collaboration KW - cscw06 KW - tagging N1 - Storey et al present a system for tagging java elements with arbitrary tags, and the means to search / jump to / and store sequences of tags to facilitate navigation. The system is one of minimal functionality, but large applicability, as tags and routes are very flexible. It seems likely to grow into something very useful as imaginative users start playing with it. AU - Storey, Margaret-Anne AU - Cheng, Li-Te AU - Bull, Ian AU - Rigby, Peter PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180906 ER -