A user evaluation of synchronous collaborative software engineering tools
A user evaluation of synchronous collaborative software engineering tools
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同步协作软件工程工具的用户评价
DOI：
10.1109/apsec.2005.22
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发表时间：
2005
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通讯作者：
N. Churcher
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作者：
C. Cook;Warwick Irwin;N. Churcher
协同软件工程（CSE）是一个快速发展的领域。诸如ide之类的工具现在开始纳入新的协作特性。我们已经开发了几个支持细粒度协作的实时CSE工具。在本文中，我们提出了一个实证评估，以调查我们的工具对协作源代码开发的潜在好处。我们的结果表明，对于所研究的两种典型类型的协作编程场景，CSE工具的用户实现的任务完成率至少是单用户的两倍。此外，与会者表示强烈支持CSE工具的概念。这些结果鼓励我们继续开发CSE工具，并研究它们在其他软件工程环境中的使用。
Collaborative software engineering (CSE) is a rapidly growing field. Tools such as IDEs are now beginning to incorporate new collaborative features. We have developed several real-time CSE tools which support fine-grained collaboration. In this paper we present an empirical evaluation to investigate the potential benefits of our tools for collaborative source code development. Our results show that for the two typical types of collaborative programming scenarios studied, users of CSE tools achieve task completion rates at least twice as fast as those obtained from their single-user counterparts. Additionally, participants indicated strong support for the concept of CSE tools. These results encourage us to continue developing our CSE tools, and to investigate their use in other software engineering contexts.