Improving model-based collaboration by social media integration

Abstract

Software engineering is inherently a collection of collaborative tasks, such as customer interviews to collect requirements, discussions about software architecture and design, collective code ownership and the interaction between developers, customers and testers to ensure software quality. Open source development communities are a particularly good example of a worldwide collaboration in software engineering. This position paper describes our opinion about the use of collaboration techniques in software engineering education. We discuss the benefits of model-based collaboration techniques as well as social media platforms. In a practical example, we show that the integration of both techniques can significantly improve the collaboration in software engineering courses.