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Supporting Targeted Selection of Collaboration Tools for Distributed Software Development

Authors:
Florian Krenn
Christian Stary

Keywords: Global Software Development; collaboration tools; project-specific decision support; Hybrid Knowledge-Based System

Abstract:
Many distributed software development teams lack targeted selection of collaboration tools, as project- and team-specific requirements are not taken into account for work support. For effective and efficient distributed team work, case-sensitive requirements engineering could help through adapting support tools to project situations. In this contribution, we detail method requirements for selecting collaboration tools for a given development context. We also analyze existing decision support techniques with respect to context adaptation. The Hybrid Knowledge-Based System (HKBS) method not only supports the context-sensitive identification of criteria, but also the selection of collaboration tools based on the development requirements. A corresponding web-based tool has been developed and evaluated in an empirical field study. The gained insights reveal the potential of HKBS and the respective tool support for targeted selection of collaboration tools in software development.

Pages: 93 to 98

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: March 22, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4391

ISBN: 978-1-61208-395-7

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from March 22, 2015 to March 27, 2015