Investigating the use of tags in collaborative development environments
Fabio Calefato, Domenico Gendarmi, Filippo Lanubile · 2010
Modern collaborative development environments have recently introduced tagging as a new feature in order to let developers annotate software artifacts with free keywords. Since tagging has the potential to have an impact on task management in software development processes, there is a need to understand how developers use tagging in projects supported by collaborative development environments and how developers' behavior differ from collaborative tagging in the Social Web.