Information Needs in Collocated Software Development Teams

By Amy J. Ko, R. Deline, Gina Venolia. International Conference on Software Engineering, 2007

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Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository (2012, background): “The affordances of collocation, documented through careful field study of software developers [14, 24] and other knowledge-based workers include: overhearing, shared visual space, and shared memory of discussion around artifacts [11, 17, 24].”
Asking and Answering Questions during a Programming Change Task (2008, background): “0098-5589/08/$25.00 2008 IEEE Published by the IEEE Computer Society Section 5, in which we analyze the support a wide range of research and industry tools provide for answering the questions we found that programmers ask.”
Information needs for software development analytics (2012, background): “, [6], [7], [8]), the needs of project managers, those who make the important decisions about the future of projects, are not well understood.”
How do programmers ask and answer questions on the web?: NIER track (2011, background): “In their study on information needs in software development, Ko et al. [6] found that the most frequently sought information included awareness about artifacts and coworkers.”
A field study of API learning obstacles (2011, background): “A few studies targeted the types of questions developers ask when conducting maintenance tasks (Hou et al. 2005; Ko et al. 2007; Sillito et al. 2008), but only a small subset of the questions elicited had to do specifically with APIs.”