WikiDev 2.0: Web-based software team collaboration

Abstract

Most software development today is a team activity. Project team members collaboratively work on the tasks necessary to accomplish the various project milestones. The work is usually asynchronous, i.e., not orchestrated by an explicit workflow, some times geographically distributed, and involves the use of a variety of tools which do not always interoperate. Version-control repositories are essential in supporting this collaboration but cannot satisfactorily address the problem of traceability of interdependencies among the artifacts produced by the individual tools. In this demo, we present a new collaboration tool, WikiDev 2.0, that proposes to address these problems by adopting a wiki as the central platform in which to integrate information about the various artifacts of interest and to present views on this information that cut across the individual tool boundaries. We believe that WikiDev 2.0 will advance the degree of each individual team-member's awareness of the status of the project, thus better supporting the overall team collaboration.