Adding collabora-on into Ra-onal Team Concert

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1 Adding collabora-on into Ra-onal Team Concert Furio Belgiorno, Ilaria Manno, Giuseppina Palmieri and Vi?orio Scarano

2 Collabora-on in SoFware Development SoFware development is inherently a collabora-ve ac-vity Involves several persons and several teams Coordina-on Integra-on of tasks with developers so they contribute to the overall objec-ve Control Formal or informal prac-ces aiming to adhere to goals, policies, standards, or quality levels Communica-on Exchange of complete and unambiguous informa-on aiming to reach a common understanding

3 Collabora-on in SoFware Development A forge sofware is a collabora-on plaqorm suppor-ng collabora-ve sofware development over the Internet source code management systems wikis sofware archives download services bug tracking system mailing- lists or forums

4 Communica-on Tools in forge- ware Name Code Bug Web Mailing Personal Private Build Wiki Forum hos+ng tracking hos+ng List branch branch system Team Other features Alioth Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Sample Code, Help Wanted, Anonymous FTP Assembla Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes FTP, Time Tracking, API BerliOS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes???? FTP, MySQL Bitbucket Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes OpenID CodePlex Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No No Live ID GitHub Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes Public API, sta-c web- page hos-ng [ Gitorious Yes No No Yes No No Yes No No Yes OpenID GNU Savannah Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes Free sofware code base Google Code Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No JavaForge Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Public remote API, Document management java.net Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes KnowledgeF Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Wri?en in Python. Very easy to install. All code orge open source. Blueprints, Karma, Answer, Mail interface, public Launchpad Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes API, OpenID Provider, Download area, Non- project branch, this is opensource OSOR.eu Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No? Metrics, OSS Observatory, Communi-es, Webconference - only for projects sponsored by public administrators (or specific interest for) Project Kenai Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Download area, IM Chatroom, public API, project website, extensive help, code can be hidden SourceForge Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No Marketplace, Jobs, Help Wanted, OpenID Relying Party, Download area -gris.org Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No? public API, extensive help

5 Collabora-on in Development Environments CollabVS Extension of Visual Studio by MicrosoF Research Coordina-on and Control: Integrated with a version control system Provides file- level ac-vity awareness Supports shared browsing of code Communica-on: presence awareness, text chat, audio video channel Ra-onal Team Concert (RTC) Extension of Eclipse by IBM Coordina-on and Control: Supports project and teams organiza-on, process awareness, actvivity awareness, work item tracking Communica-on: Jabber/XMPP chat

6 Collabora-ve knowledge building In exis-ng systems collabora/on means sharing of informa-on about the coordina-on of projects How are these informa-on built? Our goal: integra-ng collabora-ve tools into an IDE to support collabora-ve building of a common knowledge about aims, design, development and issues of the project integra-ng collabora-ve tools into RTC

7 CoFFEE Collabora-ve Face- to- Face Educa-onal Environment aims to support collabora-ve learning and problem solving in classroom CoFFEE Controller - teacher- side CoFFEE Discusser - learner- side Class Editor - edit rosters class Session Editor - create collabora-ve scripts Lesson Planner - create scripts from templates

8 Collabora-ve Tools Controller and Discusser provide access to the collabora-ve tools Tools Document Browsing Presence Tool Graphical Discussion Tool Chat Co- writer Threaded Discussion Tool Posi-onometer Private Note Tool CoFFEE Controller CoFFEE Discussers

9 Ra-onal Team Concert Project overview and details Work Plans Work Items collabora-ve IDE by IBM Based on Eclipse and Jazz Open Source IDE Missing features Open Source plaqorm suppor-ng collabora-on services

10 Argumenta-on Tools in RTC CoFFEE tools integrated in RTC Launching a new session execu-ng a tool from a list Par-cipa-ng to an ac-ve session Discussions saved on the repository

11 Threaded Discussion in RTC

12 Graphical Discussion in RTC

13 Sharing Discussions Discussions are saved on the repository Available to team members for successive reloading

14 Architecture CoFFEE RTC + CoFFEE RTC CoFFEE CoFFEE Tools Tools Tools Tools CoFFEE Eclipse Core Jazz CoFFEE component Ra-onal Team Concert Eclipse Jazz Jazz Jazz client component Jazz CoFFEE service Jazz Server Jazz Jazz service service

15 Conclusions and Future works Conclusions The integra-on of CoFFEE tools in RTC aims to support collabora-ve knowledge building among development team members Reduc-on of context switch, tracking of knowledge building CoFFEE provides a wide set of collabora-ve tools and allows to extend such set CoFFEE is on Souceforge (now on version 5.0) Just released Ec- CoFFEE.. on the Eclipse Marketplace.. go give it a try! it also include CollabXmind! Future works User test Improving the integra-on between CoFFEE and RTC Hyperlinks between RTC ar-facts and Coffee discussions (done! ) Smoothing the start up of CoFFEE discussions

16 Acknowledgments Thanks to IBM for its support via the IBM Jazz Innova-on Award 2008!