Social aspects of a continuous inspection platform for software source code

  • Authors:
  • Christian R. Prause;Markus Eisenhauer

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany;Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Cooperative and human aspects of software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Determining responsibility for a piece of source code is difficult when software is being developed collaboratively with weak code ownership. Nonetheless, a major factor for preventing "cowboy coding" and careless development of code is liability. We propose a tool for statistically acquiring per developer per document accountabilities and enable learning and self-monitoring processes within a development team while maintaining anonymity to a certain degree to not endanger team spirit. In this paper we want to examine possible social effects on the development team that employment of our tool has.