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

@inproceedings{citeulike:966554, 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 A. and Cheng, Li T. 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}, doi = {10.1145/1180875.1180906}, isbn = {1-59593-249-6}, keywords = {awareness, collaboration, communityware}, location = {Banff, Alberta, Canada}, pages = {195--198}, posted-at = {2008-04-30 12:45:33}, priority = {2}, 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 - citeulike:966554 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 - awareness KW - collaboration KW - communityware AU - Storey, Margaret AU - Cheng, Li AU - Bull, Ian AU - Rigby, Peter PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180906 ER -