Jazzing up Eclipse with collaborative tools

TL;DR: This work presents contextual collaboration, an approach to building collaborative systems that embeds collaborative capabilities into core applications, and discusses its advantages.

TL;DR: Software development is rarely a solo coding effort, but more often, it is a collaborative process, with teams of developers working together to design solutions and produce quality code.

TL;DR: CIF and MoCAS are associated with high levels of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, a finding that can aid in improving the learning processes, but they are also, unexpectedly, associated with amotivation, suggesting an overall increase in activation in the students who show mixed motivators.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors performed a qualitative study on how practitioners use APIs in their daily work and reported all findings about their observed use, including mundane observations that are predicted by theory, ways that APIs support collaborative software development.

TL;DR: Palantir is a novel workspace awareness tool that complements existing configuration management systems by providing developers with insight into other workspaces by informing a developer of which other developers change which other artifacts, calculates a simple measure of severity of those changes, and graphically displays the information in a configurable and generally non-obtrusive manner.

TL;DR: This paper examines the points of friction in the software development process and the mechanisms that reduce that friction, and surveys a variety of sites, both inside and outside the software domain, which provide some of these mechanisms.

TL;DR: An experimental software engineering environment called the flexible environment for collaborative software engineering (Flecse), which supports concurrent software engineering, is discussed and the implementation of five important themes of concurrent software Engineering, is examined.