CONTEXT: This systematic map** review is set in a Global Software Engineering (GSE)
context, characterized by a highly distributed environment in which project team members …

The developers' physical dispersion in Distributed Software Development (DSD) imposes
challenges related to awareness support during collaboration in such scenario. In this …

The research community in Software Engineering and Software Testing in particular builds
many of its contributions on a set of mutually shared expectations. Despite the fact that they …

User experience (UX) has undergone a revolution in collaborative practices, due to tools
that enable quick feedback and continuous collaboration with a varied team across a …

Collaborative development can be hampered when conflicts arise because developers have
inconsistent copies of a shared project. We present an approach to help developers identify …

Software testing is one of the key activities to achieve software quality in practice. Despite its
importance, however, we have a remarkable lack of knowledge on how developers test in …

Debugging is an inevitable activity in most software projects, often difficult and more time-
consuming than expected, giving it the nickname the" dirty little secret of computer science." …

After working for some time, developers commit their code changes to a version control
system. When doing so, they often bundle unrelated changes (eg, bug fix and refactoring) in …

This paper describes Collabode, a web-based Java integrated development environment
designed to support close, synchronous collaboration between programmers. We examine …

When multiple developers change a software system in parallel, these concurrent changes
need to be merged to all appear in the software being developed. Numerous merge …