Towards and beyond being there in collaborative software development

Abstract

Research has shown that the productivity of the members of a software team depends on the degree to which they are co-located. In this chapter, we present distributed tools that both (a) try to virtually support these forms of collaboration, and (b) go beyond co-located software development by automatically offering modes of collaboration not directly supported by it. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.