Empirical Studies on Collaboration in Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review
Christoph Treude, Margaret‐Anne Storey, Jens H. Weber · 2009
Collaboration in software development is a complex issue that has been examined by various researchers over the last decade. This paper presents a systematic literature review of pertinent literature on empirical studies on collaborative software development. We found that a lot of progress has been achieved in the field of global or distributed development. While there are still many challenges, today’s projects seem to have overcome at least some of those. Also, first steps have been made in understanding the collaborative aspects of requirements engineering and design. Research on tools for collaboration is advanced, having resulted in several successful tools especially in the area of communication. 1.