The Effects of Continuous Awareness on Distributed Software Development

Author

Cong Chen ; Kang Zhang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

18-21 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

64

Abstract

Awareness, the understanding of others´ activities, has been widely accepted as a remedy to many collaboration difficulties in distributed organizations. Continuous Awareness (CA), a continuous support for integrated awareness information across space and time, aims to address the need of continuous awareness information in globally distributed software teams. This paper presents an comprehensive evaluation of a CA system, Team Radar, across multiple platforms. The result shows that Team Radar enables developers to receive continuous awareness information effectively and efficiently without the limitations of space and time. Our work provides insights into further exploration of awareness for distributed software development and the design and evaluation of similar tools.

Keywords

groupware; software development management; team working; CA system; Team Radar; collaboration difficulties; continuous awareness information; distributed organizations; distributed software development; globally distributed software teams; integrated awareness information; Collaboration; Mobile communication; Programming; Radar; Servers; Software; Visualization; Distributed software development; awareness; collaboration; experiment; virtual team;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Software Engineering (ICGSE), 2014 IEEE 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGSE.2014.28

Filename

6915254