Title :
Towards synchronous collaborative software engineering
Author :
Cook, Carl ; Churche, Neville ; Irwin, Warwick
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Canterbury Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand
fDate :
30 Nov.-3 Dec. 2004
Abstract :
CAISE, a collaborative software engineering architecture, provides extensible real-time support for collaboration between participating tools and users. The architecture maintains a semantic project model constructed incrementally from software artifacts as they are developed; this model is used to determine the impact of changes at a semantic level. This information is relayed to developers, providing them with awareness of others´ locations, and alerting them to potential conflicts and the need for closer collaboration. We use examples from CAISE-based tools to illustrate the potential of real-time collaborative software engineering to enhance awareness of other developers´ actions.
Keywords :
groupware; real-time systems; software architecture; CAISE; collaborative software engineering architecture; semantic project model; software tools; Collaborative software; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Computer architecture; Computer science; Java; Maintenance engineering; Software engineering; Software tools; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Conference, 2004. 11th Asia-Pacific
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2245-9
DOI :
10.1109/APSEC.2004.104