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In this paper, we describe a way to identify the critical coordination needs that exist in a software development project through post-mortem content analysis and manual coding of task pairs. Our coding scheme provides guidelines on how to score the ...

Current practice in software engineering suggests a radical change in perspective: where once stood fixed teams of people following a development plan, now stand just-in-time Dynamic Networked Organizations (DyNOs), adopting a common flexible strategy ...

Trust is paramount in distributed software development to prevent geographically distributed sites to feel distant and act like distinct teams with own conflicting goals. Nevertheless, how to build trust among developers with few or no chances to meet ...

In open source software development, the collaboration among developers is the key to improve software quality. In particular, to fix a bug related to various parts of a system, developers need collaboration because each developer usually has very ...

Stack Overflow can be seen as an information market for software engineering knowledge in which the goods that are exchanged are answers to questions and the rewards are score points and badges that contribute to a users reputation. By analyzing the ...

High quality Open Source Software (OSS) has been used in many commercial software developments. In order to provide technical support to end users, OSS projects manage a user mailing list. It is for discussion about bugs and new functions of OSS with ...

This paper explores how social relationships among developers impact on the efficiency of bug fixes. From the case study of the Eclipse Platform project, we found that (1) past achievements of bug triaging by particular pairs of assignors and fixers do ...