Lighthouse: Coordination through Emerging Design

Visitor: Isabella A. da Silva, UC Irvine/BSICS

Advisor: André van der Hoek, UC Irvine/ISR

Abstract: Despite the fact that software development is an inherently collaborative activity, a great deal of software development is spent with developers in isolation, working on their own parts of the system. In these situations, developers are unaware of ongoing parallel changes being made by others. When isolated, developers miss opportunities to cooperate, which usually results in duplicated work or conflicting changes. To break this isolation, we developed Lighthouse: a tool that raises developers' awareness of others' work. It does so by utilizing a concept called emerging design, an always up-to-date design representation of the code, enabling developers to identify implementation issues as soon as they occur.

Bio:

Isabella da Silva is a visitor researcher at UC Irvine. She holds a B.S. degree from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and is currently a master's student of System Engineering and Computer Science Program at COPPE/UFRJ with emphasis in Software Engineering.