Context-awareness on software artifacts in distributed software development: a systematic review
CRIWG'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Collaboration and technology
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There has been a long history of CASE tooldevelopment, with an underlying software repositoryat the heart of most systems. Usually such tools, eventhe more recently web-based systems, are focused onsupporting individual projects within an enterprise oracross a number of distributed sites. Little support formaintaining large heterogeneous collections ofsoftware artefacts across a number of projects hasbeen developed. Within the GENESIS project, this hasbeen a key consideration in the development of theOpen Source Component Artefact Repository(OSCAR). Its most recent extensions are explicitlyaddressing the provision of cross project global viewsof large software collections as well as historicalviews of individual artefacts within a collection. Thelong-term benefits of such support can only berealised if OSCAR is widely adopted and varioussteps to facilitate this are described.