MODUS-SD: User modeling in collaborative software development

During the software development cycle, artifacts (source-code, documentation, user manuals, etc.) are written, most of them, cooperatively. Each participant in a software development team plays a specific role, but may write an artifact cooperatively with participants playing different roles. In large and distributed teams the roles are well-defined and mainly respected. In small teams however, a participant may perform different roles simultaneously. We have already proposed the architecture of a system (called CSCW-SD) to support small collocated teams developing software. We are now adding to CSCW-SD a module, called MODUS-SD, capable of modeling users. In this paper we present this module, how it was implemented and present a case study, with preliminary results, in the context of modeling Java developers in a collaborative software development team.