A Social Development Environment is a real-time collaborative programming tool with integrated social networking features. This emerging technology is important for distributed software developers, e-learning and technical communities. Social Development Environments advance the state of the art for collaboration, coordination, and project management in software development. Social Development ...

Developers of interactive software are confronted by a variety of software tools to help them design and implement user interfaces. They often resort to ad hoc means of tool selection and subsequently are dissatisfied with their chosen tool. In this paper we describe a framework, evaluation methodology, and associated tool for investigating the suitability of user interface development tools (U...

Most of the time developers make extensive use of software tools in a software development process to support them in their day-to-day work. One of the first and most important phases of this process is the design phase, but within this phase intuitive and easy to use tools, which support the creative but also collaborative workflow (parallel/distributed), are missing. At the moment, developers...

An approach for tight coupling of process models and software development tools — with the metaphor of component-based software development environments — supporting “eXecutable Process Models” (XPM) is presented. In this paper, we focus on the direction from the components of a software development environment towards the process models in order to automatically acquire process model informati...

Activity theory is an analytical framework that has been used successfully to understand and explain collective work. Software development is of course one particular kind of collective work. In this paper, we use activity theory to analyze the collaborative work of a software development team. Using this framework, we were able to identify different tensions within and contradictions between a...

The objective of the research is to examine and develop new methods and tools for management of knowledge in Lean Product development. Lean Product development attempts to apply lean philosophy and principles within product development process. Special emphasis is given to the so-called Set Based Lean Design principles. Such product development process requires innovative methodologies and tool...

In many papers describing parallel programming tools, the authors illustrate the strengths of their approach by presenting some impressive speedup results. However, is this the only metric by which we should judge the quality of their tool? Many of these tools offer significant software engineering advantages that reduce program development time and increase code reliability. This paper uses th...

This paper is concerned with the risks associated with the software development process. A model {GRisk-Model) is proposed for the management of such risks and a software tool (GRisk-Tool), developed to support the model, is described. Both the method and the tool were created with the participation of senior managers and software engineers of software factories. The model and the tool serve as...

Most Web end-user development tools assume that users create Web applications entirely visually. However, such tools have a limited functionality and support inadequately the transition from visual editing to source code editing. In this paper, we introduce a tool, XIDE, that supports end users in creation of database-driven Web applications. The proposed tool is based on three main approaches:...

The current software development tools show the same form of interaction as when they started back, in the mid 70's. However, since the appearance of visual languages and due to their own nature, they can be handled by tools which have different input methods to conventional ones. By incorporating new motion detection technology, it is intended that new forms of interaction are established. Int...