I am very glad to announce the 3rd International Workshop on Social Software Engineering (SSE2010) that is co-located with the Software Engineering 2010 conference in Paderborn, Germany (February, 22-26 2010). The workshop will take place on February, 24 2010.
In this workshop we would like to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different aspects of collaboration and knowledge sharing in software engineering as well as the engineering of social software to discuss new results and future research challenges. Major topics addressed at the workshop include (but not limited to):
The topics of the workshop include, but are not restricted to:
Social and human aspects of software engineering
Collaboration and knowledge sharing in development teams and (Open Source) communities
Impact of Social Software on development processes
Empirical studies on collaboration and information behaviour in social software engineering
Engineering social software
Engineering of lightweight and unobtrusive tools, Web 2.0 and Social Semantic Web applications
Approaches and tools for context-aware and personalized assistance
Particularities in the development of Social Software
Social Software Engineering
Concerns of individuals in collaboration settings, such as learning, usability and incentives
Usage of Social Software to teach software engineering, teaching social aspects of software engineering
Research methods and approaches for analyzing and designing successful collaboration support
Scientific analysis of the relation between methods/processes, tools and collaborative development practice
Together with my former student and now SAP guy Benedikt Schmidt, I wrote a paper on how to apply Task Patterns to the social software engineering process. The paper is submitted for the workshop on Social Information Retrieval in Technology Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL) at the ICWL 2009 in Aachen.
Abstract:
Experience sharing to support software engineering is an important, yet difficult task. This paper presents an integration of the Task Pattern concept to support social software engineering. Thus Task Pattern provide information objects and code examples to support software engineering tasks in a community of developers. They are generated based on information resulting from task-centric software development tools, e.g. the Tasktop system. As centrally organized and automatically extended information source they give a valuable insight into the process and product of software development tasks.
A new Version (1.0.1) of our Eclipse plugin Microclipse is available for download.
With Microclipse you can send microblogging messages to Twitter or any Laconi.ca instance (including Identi.ca) directly from your Eclipse-RCP-based application.
Change log:
You only need to enter Twitter or Laconi.ca credentials not both
PreferencePane checks wheter you entered a tag with at least 3 characters
Please give us feedback on the new version of the plugin.
We are looking for software teams that are willingly to take part in a short online survey on the use of means of communication in their daily project life. It does not matter if you are a large or small team, whether you are on site or distributed, whether you are an EU project, startup or large company.
With the survey we try to find out which means of communication are useful in specific situations of the development process, which means of communication are really used and how they support the problem solving in a team.
If you and your team are interested in taking part in the survey please contact me and I will send you a link to the survey together with a token that identifies your team. Of course we will share the results of the survey as soon as we have them here on the blog.
A note on privacy:
The survey will be an anonymous one. The record kept of your survey responses will not contain any identifying information about you unless a specific question in the survey will ask for this.
I recently presented my paper “Communication is the key. Support Durable Knowledge Sharing in Software Engineering by Microblogging” at the SENSE 2009 workshop in Kaiserslautern.
Abstract:
Communication is undoubtedly one of the key elements of successful software development. Especially in larger groups communication is the critical point in gathering and forming relevant information, share knowledge and create functioning products. Some studies stressed out the fact that informal, ad hoc communication take up a significant part of the developers working time. Nonetheless the support of inter-project and inter-organisational communication seems to play a minor part in the development of IDEs and software development platforms. In this paper we discuss communication and knowledge sharing in software engineering and introduce an approach to support social software engineering by microblogging. This approach is to be studied in future projects.
Here you will find the draft version of the paper.
I never was a blogger. I thought I had nothing special to say about things that others would be interested in. The I got introduced to Twitter at Adobe’s on AIR Tour Europe 2008 at Berlin and became really fast addicted to this micro form of blogging. Together with some colleagues I am very interested in how microblogging can be used as a communication channel in conferences and other settings (the software engineering process for example).
But even with its enormous advantages in speed, shortness and the viral dissemination of news, microblogging has a main disadvantage: it’s simply not made for expressing longer ideas or discussing thoughts in a more deeply way. Don’t get me wrong, I really love microblogging in a lot of settings, but I don’t understand people saying “Twitterkilledmyblog“. Twitter did kill my feedreader as all the interesting links, photos etc. now come from my friends and followers on Twitter (maybe that’s another reason why you should follow everyone back). But at least for me with starting Twitter the “need” for having a blog to raise some questions, to discuss ideas and thoughts in a more deeply way just became to be.
What about you? Did Twitter kill your blog? Why is it like that? Did Twitter killed your feedreader as well? Where do you get your relevant information from nowadays?
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