TY - GEN
T1 - Ambient awareness of build status in collocated software teams
AU - Downs, John
AU - Plimmer, Beryl
AU - Hosking, John G.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We describe the evaluation of a build awareness system that assists agile software development teams to understand current build status and who is responsible for any build breakages. The system uses ambient awareness technologies, providing a separate, easily perceived communication channel distinct from standard team workflow. Multiple system configurations and behaviours were evaluated. An evaluation of the system showed that, while there was no significant change in the proportion of build breakages, the overall number of builds increased substantially, and the duration of broken builds decreased. Team members also reported an increased sense of awareness of, and responsibility for, broken builds and some noted the system dramatically changed their perception of the build process making them more cognisant of broken builds.
AB - We describe the evaluation of a build awareness system that assists agile software development teams to understand current build status and who is responsible for any build breakages. The system uses ambient awareness technologies, providing a separate, easily perceived communication channel distinct from standard team workflow. Multiple system configurations and behaviours were evaluated. An evaluation of the system showed that, while there was no significant change in the proportion of build breakages, the overall number of builds increased substantially, and the duration of broken builds decreased. Team members also reported an increased sense of awareness of, and responsibility for, broken builds and some noted the system dramatically changed their perception of the build process making them more cognisant of broken builds.
KW - ambient awareness
KW - build processes
KW - continuous integration
KW - software teams
KW - status information
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864201820&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227165
DO - 10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227165
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781467310673
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
SP - 507
EP - 517
BT - Proceedings - 34th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2012
T2 - 34th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2012
Y2 - 2 June 2012 through 9 June 2012
ER -