Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

2-2012

Abstract

Social media has changed how software developers collaborate, how they coordinate their work, and where they find information. Social media sites, such as the Question and Answer (Q&A) portal Stack Overflow, fill archives with millions of entries that contribute to what we know about software development, covering a wide range of topics. For today’s software developers, reusable code snippets, introductory usage examples, and pertinent libraries are often just a web search away. In this position paper, we discuss the opportunities and challenges for software developers that rely on web content curated by the crowd, and we envision the future of an industry where individual developers benefit from and contribute to a body of knowledge maintained by the crowd using social media.

Keywords

Social Media, Software Development, Social Coding

Discipline

Programming Languages and Compilers | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Intelligent Systems and Optimization

Areas of Excellence

Digital transformation

Publication

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on the Future of Collaborative Software Development in conjunction with the 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ’12), Seattle, WA, USA, February 11-15

First Page

1

Last Page

3

City or Country

America, USA

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