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Many processes in Software Engineering, and specifically in the Unified Software Development Process, require the participation of several actors who may play different roles. Collaborative software (groupware) can solve the problems that arise when trying to deal with such processes. Within this scope, we have developed a domain independent synchronous collaborative tool that can be specialized to work with several types of diagrammatical domains. Among those domains, the diagrams used in the Unified Process can be found. In this paper we describe how we have instantiated this model-based tool to work with some diagrams in the Unified Process. Also, in the paper we explain how we have carried out some studies with this tool to obtain conclusions regarding several issues, including the analysis of the communication and coordination among users, and the relationship between them and the quality of the work.
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This research has been partially supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain) in the TIN2011-29542-C02-02 project and by the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) in the PPII11-0013-1219 and PPEII-2014012-A projects.
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Gallardo, J., Molina, A.I., Bravo, C., Gallego, F. (2015). Experiences of Use of a Multi-domain Tool for Collaborative Software Engineering Tasks. In: Maciaszek, L., Filipe, J. (eds) Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. ENASE 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 551. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27218-4_7
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