Enhancing Support for Collaboration in Software Development Environments

Enhancing Support for Collaboration in Software Development Environments

Many studies have shown that collaboration is still badly supported in Software Development Environments (SDEs). This is why we try to take benefits from a theory developed in Social and Human Sciences, the Activity Theory, to better understand the cooperative human activities in which SD is realize...

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Hauptverfasser: Lewandowski, Arnaud, Bourguin, Grégory
Format: Buchkapitel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Activity Theory
Computer Science
Computer Support Cooperative Work
Experience Crystallization
Human-Computer Interaction
Software Development
System Task
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Zusammenfassung:Many studies have shown that collaboration is still badly supported in Software Development Environments (SDEs). This is why we try to take benefits from a theory developed in Social and Human Sciences, the Activity Theory, to better understand the cooperative human activities in which SD is realized. This paper particularly focuses on the experience crystallization principle to propose new solutions while enhancing the support for collaboration in the widely used Eclipse IDE.
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-72863-4_17