TY - GEN
T1 - A context conceptual model for a distributed software development environment
AU - Chaves, Ana Paula
AU - Huzita, Elisa H.M.
AU - Vieira, Vaninha
AU - Steinmacher, Igor
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Organizations seeking lower costs, quality software and specialized resources started to use an approach called Global Software Development (GSD). However, this approach also brought some drawbas imposed by the physical distribution, including issues related to communication, cooperation and coordination. There is a need to improve user awareness related to the process and the context in which collaborative artifacts are generated. In this context, conceptual modeling is relevant since conceptual specifications can be used to support understanding, problem-solving, and communication among stakeholders about a given subject domain. This paper presents a conceptual model focused on contextual information for DiSEN, a distributed software engineering environment. Main contributions found on the paper are: (i) the identification of a set of information that compose environment entities context ; and (ii) the definition of a model that facilitates domain semantics comprehension, reducing communication gaps.
AB - Organizations seeking lower costs, quality software and specialized resources started to use an approach called Global Software Development (GSD). However, this approach also brought some drawbas imposed by the physical distribution, including issues related to communication, cooperation and coordination. There is a need to improve user awareness related to the process and the context in which collaborative artifacts are generated. In this context, conceptual modeling is relevant since conceptual specifications can be used to support understanding, problem-solving, and communication among stakeholders about a given subject domain. This paper presents a conceptual model focused on contextual information for DiSEN, a distributed software engineering environment. Main contributions found on the paper are: (i) the identification of a set of information that compose environment entities context ; and (ii) the definition of a model that facilitates domain semantics comprehension, reducing communication gaps.
KW - Conceptual modeling
KW - Context modeling
KW - Global software development
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952385779
SN - 1891706268
SN - 9781891706264
T3 - SEKE 2010 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
SP - 437
EP - 442
BT - SEKE 2010 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
T2 - 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2010
Y2 - 1 July 2010 through 3 July 2010
ER -