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Global software development in a CSCW perspective

Authors:

Pernille Bjorn,

Gabriela Avram,

Alexander Boden,

David Redmiles,

Cleidson de Souza,

Volker WulfAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW Companion '14: Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing

Pages 301 - 304

https://doi.org/10.1145/2556420.2558863

Published: 15 February 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Global software development (GSD) has been an im-portant research topic in the CSCW community for more than two decades. CSCW has helped identify a significant number of challenges and solutions for han-dling distances in time, space and culture in distributed software engineering environments. However, no com-prehensive collected body of knowledge concerning research on GSD from a CSCW perspective exists yet. The goal of this workshop is to bring together research-ers and practitioners who have studied GSD from a CSCW perspective, and provide an overview of current findings and future challenges. In the workshop, we will facilitate group discussions across the diverse groups of researchers coming from ethnographic studies of soft-ware development practices and design studies of CSCW tools and processes for GSD. The goal is to pro-vide an overview of current research, which in turn may form the basis for joint publications or an edited book.

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Global software development in a CSCW perspective
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools

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CSCW Companion '14: Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing

February 2014

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ISBN:9781450325417

DOI:10.1145/2556420

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