Analysis of Versatility Trade-offs of Publish/Subscribe Infrastructures Theo van Oostrum M.S. Student, Department of Information Science Advisor: André van der Hoek Utrecht University, Holland

Abstract

The aim of our research is to create a better understanding of the issues that arise when developing software in a global setting. Because developers are not working in a shared physical location, communication about what they are working on is more difficult. This can lead to conflicting situation within a development project. Therefore awareness of other developers' activities must be provided in other ways. World View is a collaboration tool for distributed software development that provides visualizations related to dependencies between development teams across the globe. We are currently using world View to perform an empirical study on data from the IBM Jazz project, particularly focusing on the flow of work items, shared code changes, and dependent code changes.

 

Bio

Theo van Oostrum is working as a visiting research scholar at the department of Informatics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is studying in the Master programme on Content and Knowledge Engineering at the department of Information Science at Utrecht University in Holland. He is working on his Master Thesis project at UCI. His study at Utrecht University involves usability engineering and knowledge management.