Journal article
Capturing communication and context in the software project lifecycle
Research in engineering design, v 14(2), pp 75-88
01 May 2003
Abstract
Capturing design process knowledge is a complex multidisciplinary problem. The advent and increased acceptance of digital computer-supported cooperative work tools enabled us to study how engineering collaboration might be captured and archived to support engineering lifecycle activities. To improve project communications among software engineers and create structured e-mail archives, we developed an environment called CodeLink. CodeLink is a design rationale support tool, integrating e-mail–based collaboration with the software development process, providing teams of developers with a means to automatically associate specific code elements with e-mail messages. In this paper we describe CodeLink's architecture, user interface, and the results of an informal user study. We believe that by integrating collaborative work tools with development tools, we can enrich the communication within engineering teams and build repositories that detail collaborative decisions made in the development process. These repositories can then be used to facilitate software maintenance and extract design rationale.
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Details
- Title
- Capturing communication and context in the software project lifecycle
- Creators
- Vera Zaychik - Drexel UniversityWilliam Regli - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Research in engineering design, v 14(2), pp 75-88
- Publisher
- Springer Nature B.V
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000183532600002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0038610564
- Other Identifier
- 991019346722504721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Engineering, Industrial
- Engineering, Manufacturing
- Engineering, Multidisciplinary