Christoph Treude, Margaret-Anne Storey, "Bridging lightweight and heavyweight task organization: the role of tags in adopting new task categories", International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pp. 231-234, 2010

Project:
Social Media and Software Engineering (NSERC/IBM/DND)

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Abstract and additional information:

In collaborative software development projects, tasks are often used as a mechanism to coordinate and track shared development work. Modern development environments provide explicit support for task management where tasks are typically organized and managed through predefined categories. Although there have been many studies that analyze data available from task management systems, there has been relatively little work on the design of task management tools. In this paper we explore how tagging with freely assigned keywords provides developers with a lightweight mechanism to further categorize and annotate development tasks. We investigate how tags that are frequently used over a long period of time reveal the need for additional predefined categories of keywords in task management tool support. Finally, we suggest future work to explore how integrated lightweight tool features in a development environment may improve software development practices.

Bibtex:

@inproceedings{1810337,
 author = {Treude, Christoph and Storey, Margaret-Anne},
 title = {Bridging lightweight and heavyweight task organization:
the role of tags in adopting new task categories},
 booktitle = {ICSE '10: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Software Engineering},
 year = {2010},
 isbn = {978-1-60558-719-6},
 pages = {231--234},
 location = {Cape Town, South Africa},
 doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1810295.1810337},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 }