SHF: Small: Collaborative Research: Supporting Continuous Awareness and Exploration of Social and Design Dependencies

SHF：小型：协作研究：支持对社会和设计依赖性的持续认识和探索

• 批准号: 1016134
• 负责人: Anita Sarma
• 金额: $ 16.61万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-15 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1016134&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHF; Small; Collaborative; Research; Supporting

Modern software engineering is a highly social activity, which is in contrast aimed at producing technical artifacts. As a result, complex dependencies between the technical elements of software systems and the social structures of the developers that are tasked with their creation have a direct effect on software quality: in projects that exhibit a high degree of congruence between the design of a software system and the social communication structures of its developers, teams are more productive and systems contain fewer faults. This research project aims to create the necessary tool support so that software engineers can be made keenly aware of these socio-technical dependencies within the familiar context of their everyday development activities. By providing this information in this specific context ? at a time when it is useful and actionable ? the broader impacts of this research have the potential to dramatically transform software engineering habits and practices by bringing into sharper focus the existing and emerging socio-technical trends of a development effort, allowing developers to intervene when they diverge, and ultimately improving the quality of the software systems produced.To achieve these objectives, this research project is grounded on the creation of an architecture-centric toolset that supports the analysis of social network patterns, designed to be an addition to the popular Eclipse development environment. This toolset will support continuous awareness of emerging socio-technical dependencies by collecting data and providing a host of displays that allow developers to visualize their project?s software architecture, dependencies between source code units, and the social network formed through analysis of developer communications. Key contributions and advances of this work include the novel integration of social aspects of development with the architecture of software systems, the provision of concrete socio-architectural congruence metrics, and the presentation of this information to developers during ongoing development efforts.

现代软件工程是一种高度社会化的活动，相反，它的目的是生产技术工件。因此，软件系统的技术元素和开发人员的社会结构之间的复杂依赖关系对软件质量有直接的影响：在软件系统的设计和开发人员的社会沟通结构之间表现出高度一致性的项目中，团队的生产力更高，系统包含的错误更少。该研究项目旨在创建必要的工具支持，以便软件工程师能够在日常开发活动的熟悉环境中敏锐地意识到这些社会技术依赖关系。通过在这种特定背景下提供这些信息？在它是有用的和可操作的时候？这项研究的更广泛的影响有可能极大地改变软件工程的习惯和实践，使现有的和新出现的社会技术趋势的发展努力更加集中，允许开发人员进行干预时，他们分歧，并最终提高软件系统的质量生产。为了实现这些目标，这个研究项目是建立在创建一个以架构为中心的工具集的基础上的，该工具集支持对社交网络模式的分析，旨在作为流行的Eclipse开发环境的补充。该工具集将通过收集数据并提供大量显示，使开发人员能够可视化他们的项目，从而支持对新兴社会技术依赖关系的持续认识。的软件架构，源代码单元之间的依赖关系，以及通过分析开发人员通信形成的社交网络。这项工作的主要贡献和进展包括新的集成的社会方面的发展与软件系统的架构，提供具体的社会架构一致性指标，并在正在进行的开发工作中向开发人员介绍这些信息。