Context: Agile development methodologies in the software industry have increased
significantly over the past decade. Although one of the main aspects of agile software …

Context Staff turnover in organizations is an important issue that should be taken into
account mainly for two reasons: 1. Employees carry an organization's knowledge in their …

The wiki technology is increasingly being used in corporate environments to facilitate a
broad range of tasks. This survey examines the use of wikis on a variety of organisational …

Natural language processing (NLP), the area of study concerned with how computers can
interpret and handle natural language, has gained interest in the last few years. Based on a …

In large-scale collaborative software projects, thousands of requirements with complex
interdependencies and different granularity spreading in different levels are elicited …

Software requirements specifications are commonly written in natural language, making
them prone to a number of defects, such as ambiguity, inconsistency, or lack of readability …

Abstract Information and communication technologies can be an added value in order to
provide integrated services to customers. With the technological advancements of the last …

In the field of software architecture, there has been a paradigm shift from describing
structural information, such as components and connectors, to documenting architectural …

Documentation is often neglected in agile software projects, even if software developers
perceive a need for good documentation. One reason can be found in improper …

The increasing number of distributed software projects together with the success of agile
development methodologies raise new challenges for collaboration and knowledge sharing …