Bridging Software Communities through Social Networking
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074 0 -74 5 9 /13 / $ 31. 0 0 © 2 013 I E E E Over the past decade, the advent of social networking has fundamentally altered the landscape of how software is designed, developed, and used. It has expanded how communities of software stakeholders communicate, collaborate, learn from, and coordinate with one another. In many cases, social networking has eliminated boundaries and upended traditional hierarchies that previously may have constrained the flow of information within and between organizations,1,2 while also allowing user communities to easily share usage information with each other and to communicate with developers directly. the rise of social Networks For software engineers, the rise of social networking sites is allowing them to communicate with development team members within and between organizations so that they can maintain awareness of one another’s activities, share technical and software process information, and more efficiently coordinate development on software products. Entrepreneurs with product ideas are employing crowdsourcing to entice developers they don’t even know to write code for them. Web-based social networking services, such as Twitter and Facebook, enable requirements engineers, customer support workers, marketers, and customers to talk with one another. These fast and lightweight communication media are helping customers to perceive that their interests are being heard and they’re enabling organizations to follow trendsetters and influence public opinion about their products. Software forges with social media features further support the ability of millions of software product communities and value-added providers to establish software-platform-focused ecosystems and help teams efficiently leverage an entire platform’s worth of technology to quickly develop a software product from common components. FOCUS: Guest editors’ introduction
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عنوان ژورنال:
- IEEE Software
دوره 30 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013