Social Software in Software Development

Filed under: Java, Engineering

If you start working on an existing project (like I did recently) it is always a problem to find out, who is responsible for which parts of the code base. For this scenario a research team at UCI has developed an eclipse plugin, which analyzes Java code in a CVS repository and spits out a dependency graph - both for code and developers.

If you mix this kind of software with the principles of social software one can stipulate software re-use in large-scale, distributed systems and teams (think of SOAs). Great stuff IMO!

Jan 26, 2006 at 20:37 | Permalink

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  • 1. Stefan Kleineikenscheidt &hellip  |  June 24th, 2010 at 11:19 pm

    […] Kathy Walrath has requested java developers to take part in a survey about good old Javadoc. I personally think that it lacks in community features, such as PHP’s ‘User Contributed Notes’ (sample), better or easier editing features (maybe wiki-style), or even social software-like approaches. What do you think? […]

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