Distributed and Collaborative Development

This article discusses key design concepts and research issues in CSCW, especially those relevant to providing awareness support for distributed software development, and provides a survey of CSCW systems and tools in this area. Common collaboration practices in open-source development efforts we described and contrasted with those supported by specialized CSCW systems. Keywords: computer-supported corporative work; CSCW software development; open-source; development; awareness; visualization; shared workspace; shared artifacts