Our second publication from the MASHl09 workshop at the ICL conference 2009 is also available online.

Abstract:

Classical tools for supporting software engineering teams (collaborative development environment, CDE) are designed to support one team during the development of a product. Often the required data sources or experts reside outside of the internal project team and thus not provided by these CDEs. This paper describes an approach for a community-embedded CDE (CCDE), which is capable of handling multiple projects of several organizations, providing inter-project knowledge sharing and developer awareness. The presented approach uses the mashup pattern to integrate multiple data sources in order to provide software teams with an exactingly development environment.

Reference: W. Reinhardt and S.Rinne: An Architecture to Support Learning, Awareness, and Transparency in Social Software Engineering. In: International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL 2009).

An Architecture to Support Learning, Awareness, and Transparency in Social Software Engineering

Last week Benedikt presented our paper on the application of Task Pattern in the context of Social Software Engineering at the SIRTEL workshop at ICWL09 in Aachen, Germany. While he was presenting in Aachen, I was in the Twitter backchannel and could answer some immediate questions. For me this was a quite handy way to interact with the live audience while I wasn’t there. Maybe we can professionalise this method in upcoming conferences. You’ll find the #sirtel09 discussions here.

These are our slides:

I just submitted another paper for the special track “MashUps for Learning“ at this year ICL conference in Villach, Austria. Here is the abstract:

Classical tools for supporting software engineering teams (collaborative development environment, CDE) are designed to support one team during the development of a product. Often the required data sources or experts reside outside of the internal project team and thus they are not provided by these CDEs. This paper describes an approach for a community-embedded CDE (CCDE), which is capable of handling multiple projects of several organizations, providing inter-project knowledge sharing and enhancing developer awareness. The approach presented uses the mashup pattern to integrate multiple data sources in order to provide software teams with a sophisticated development environment.

Let’s see what the reviewers think about our community-embedded CDE approach and the architecture of eCopSoft.