Software Engineering

Abstract

This research examines two close parts of collaboration technology : collaborative applications and infrastructures . The thesis is : collaborative applications and infrastructures are beneficial for all phases of software engineering . The purpose of this is to outline the benefits of the collaborative software engineering applications through evaluating their usability , flexibility , and performance

Software Engineering

Introduction

Software engineering has long been a potential field for researching collaboration . With technological development and economic means of increasing production , collaborative software engineering became a global phenomenon . This research is closely related to

collaboration technology for collaborative software engineering : collaborative applications and infrastructures . Collaborative applications and infrastructures give better computer support for cooperative work than what has been offered by single-user applications . Support for distributed collaborative software engineering helps to support cooperative work at all stages of collaborative software engineering design , inspection , programming , debugging , and testing . Collaborative software applications offer many advantages , for example , potential savings in costs . Researchers are examining how computer supports a variety of collaborative processes including team decision making writing , and budget planning . It is of great significance because collaborative applications reduce team interaction costs in distributed collaborative software engineering : requirements analysis , design inspection , programming , checkout , and testing

Infrastructure and Applications for Collaborative Software Engineering

Prasun Dewan and Rajiv Choudhary (1995 ) investigated support for distributed collaborative software engineering . Their research findings are both important and promising . Research is showing promise of future success because collaborative applications have the potential for reducing software engineering costs . For example , an application allowing distributed users to collect software requirements both synchronously and asynchronously could make travel cost smaller , as they could communicate with each other from different locations reduce time spent in conferences , as they could complete more tasks asynchronously and cut down documentation and maintenance costs , as the tool could automatically keep logs of events and the rationale behind design decisions (Diaper and Stanton 2004 ,

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In much the same way , a program editor can allow programmers to work more simultaneously implicit locking-unlocking can reduce the overhead of checking-in-checking-out data detailed access control can reduce the probability of programmers not responsible for some program component incorrectly modifying the component and collaborative undo-redo can lower the effort that is needed to recover from team incorrect activities and allow new participants to playback the history . Dewan (1993 ) findings have indicated that some of these benefits do , actually occur in such phases of collaborative software engineering such as design

An extension of the abstraction of an editable active variable provides programmers with ability to control processes automatically and affords flexibility for implementing collaborative applications . Researchers have worked out the structure of several different kinds of software abstractions (and associated architectures ) for supporting collaborative applications . These include abstractions that provide users with distributed sharing of a message bus , screen bitmaps , windows , widgets and text buffers (Dewan and Choudhary 1995 ,

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The implementations of collaborative applications are requiring effort because , besides single-user interaction tasks , these applications must carry out collaboration tasks such as : dynamically making and...