Software development environments (IDEs) have not followed the IT industry's inexorable
trend towards distribution. They do too little to address the problems raised by today's …

A collaborative development environment (CDE) is a virtual space wherein all the
stakeholders of a project–even if distributed by time or distance–may negotiate, brainstorm …

Cloud computing is currently generating tremendous excitement in the IT industry. However,
most cloud initiatives to date have focused on the delivery of computing services to end …

In almost any other field than software development, the World Wide Web, or simply the Web
has revolutionized collaboration by providing a platform for cooperative applications and …

Software development organizations are changing from traditional enterprise or open
source teams to decentralized, inter-reliant, multi-scale ecosystems of software developers …

The Internet has been changing the way people collaborate on software development,
offering certain advantages but also creating new requirements. Internet based collaboration …

This chapter discusses the impact of configuration management on collaborative software
engineering, analyzing both the state-of-the-practice and the state-of-the-art. It starts with a …

Configuration management tools are at the heart of every software project. Thus, it should
not be surprising that they play a central role in Open Source projects as well. Most …

In globally distributed software development, many software developers have to collaborate
and deal with issues of collaboration. Although collaboration is challenging, collaborative …

As software development becomes an increasingly collaborative effort, traditional
development tools have to be extended to support seamless collaboration while minimizing …