Supporting developers' coordination in the IDE

A  Guzzi; Alberto Bacchelli; Yann Riche; Arie Van Deursen

doi:10.1145/2675133.2675177

Supporting developers' coordination in the IDE

A Guzzi, Alberto Bacchelli, Yann Riche, Arie Van Deursen

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Abstract

Teamwork in software engineering is time-consuming and problematic. In this paper, we explore how to better support developers' collaboration in teamwork, focusing on the software implementation phase happening in the integrated development environment (IDE). Conducting a qualitative investigation, we learn that developers' teamwork needs mostly regard coordination, rather than concurrent work on the same (sub)task, and that developers successfully deal with scenarios considered problematic in literature, but they have problems dealing with breaking changes made by peers on the same project. We derive implications and recommendations. Based on one of the latter, we analyze the current IDE support for receiving code changes, finding that historical information is neither visible nor easily accessible. Consequently, we devise and qualitatively evaluate BELLEVUE, the design of an IDE extension to make received changes always visible and code history accessible in the editor.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	518-532
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450329224
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675177
Publication status	Published - 28 Feb 2015
Event	18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015 - BC, Canada Duration: 14 Mar 2015 → 18 Mar 2015

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Conference	18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015
Country/Territory	Canada
City	BC
Period	14/03/15 → 18/03/15

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Developers' coordination
IDE extension
Qualitative study.

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Guzzi, A, Bacchelli, A, Riche, Y & Van Deursen, A 2015, Supporting developers' coordination in the IDE. in Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 518-532, 18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015, BC, Canada, 14/03/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675177

Supporting developers' coordination in the IDE. / Guzzi, A; Bacchelli, Alberto; Riche, Yann et al.
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015. p. 518-532.

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