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Collaborative Software Engineering: Challenges and Prospects

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Much work is presently ongoing in collaborative software engineering research. This work is beginning to make serious inroads into our ability to more effectively practice collaborative software engineering, with best practices, processes, tools, metrics, and other techniques becoming available for day-to-day use. However, we have not yet reached the point where the practice of collaborative software engineering is routine, without surprises, and generally as optimal as possible. This chapter summarizes the main findings of this book, draws some conclusions on these findings and looks at the prospects for software engineers in dealing with the challenges of collaborative software development. The chapter ends with prospects for collaborative software engineering.

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    Ivan Mistrík (Independent Consultant)

  2. Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand

    John Grundy

  3. Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-3440, USA

    André van der Hoek

  4. Department of Computer Science Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA

    Jim Whitehead

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    John Grundy

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Mistrík, I., Grundy, J., van der Hoek, A., Whitehead, J. (2010). Collaborative Software Engineering: Challenges and Prospects. In: Mistrík, I., Grundy, J., Hoek, A., Whitehead, J. (eds) Collaborative Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10294-3_19

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