Supporting Collaborative Software Development by Context-Aware Information Retrieval Facilities

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Henrich;Karlheinz Morgenroth

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • DEXA '03 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The development of large software systems is a typicalexample for collaborative development efforts. Moreover,software development becomes more and more component-oriented.The source for these components can be eithera component repository inside an organization or one ofthe emerging open source development networks availableon the Internet. In this paper we describe an approach tosearch for potentially useful components during softwaredevelopment. Our approach is by no means restricted tocomponents in an implementation oriented sense, but coversall types of artifacts created within a software developmentprocess. It is based on retrieval techniques for structureddocuments and uses contextual information about the userand his or her current work to refine the queries.