Presented at the ISEC 2008 (1st India Software Engineering Conference, Hyderabad) on the subject of “Software Engineering in the age of Web2.0”, available at the website http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~sigcse/isec2008/workshop.htm
3. Software engineering
is the application of a
systematic, disciplined, quantifiable
approach to the development,
operation, and maintenance of software
5. Project Websites were few and far between
No interest was taken to keep it updated
Mainly for dashboards and reporting purposes
Huge amount of Documentation
Not updated regularly
RoI of such documents was not high
Dissemination to team members was a challenge
Version control issues
Publishing of Information was a lengthy process
Not much participation
Folders-based content
Difficult to mine for relevant info
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8. Web 2.0
Is a trend in World Wide Web technology, and web
design,
Is a second generation of web-based communities and
hosted services such as
social-networking sites,
wikis,
blogs,
folksonomies
Aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing
among users.
9. Web 2.0 is a
knowledge-oriented environment
where human interactions generate content
that is published, managed and used
through network applications
in a service-oriented architecture
11. Requirements
Design
Wikis
Development
Contains various
Forums
Phases
Testing
Maintenance RSS Feeds
Knowledge
Blogs
Software Categorize for
Rich Info
Engineering Easy access
In all phases
implementation
Folksonomies
Waterfall
Types of
Model
Agile
Methodologies
12. Management of knowledge becomes easier
The social factor - ‘Contribute and share’ is key
The cool factor - ‘Everyone is doing it’
Most tools are open-source – hence, no cost
Multiple ways to categorize same content
Easy to search
Easy process to setup
What are the Web2.0 technologies you use?
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13. Project-wide initiative Organization-wide
initiative
Availability of “Live“
documents Utilize knowledge
expertise of entire
Facilitate collaborative
organization
information gathering
Capture Information
that can be used in
future
14. Instant notifications Can be Internal/
Managers/Leads share
External
information
Tool for dissemination
Makes life more
disciplined
in distributed envt.
Sources of invaluable
information
15. Avoid reinventing the wheel
Provide a searchable repository that can help
locate solutions based on others experience
Easy to share with entire team
16. The technologies of Web2.0 makes a developer’s life
much easier
Covers all phases of Software Engineering
Applicable both to Waterfall or Agile
Information specific to a technology is available on the
internet
It requires some effort in finding and tagging it
Information specific to a project can be created quickly
Distribution is possible at the click of a button
Improves the overall productivity of the team
19. Rich Internet application techniques, often Ajax-based
Folksonomies (in the form of tags or tagclouds, for example)
Syndication, aggregation and notification of data in RSS or Atom
feeds
Weblog-publishing tools
Wiki or forum software, etc., to support user-generated content
Semantically valid XHTML and HTML markup
Microformats extending pages with additional semantics
Cascading Style Sheets to aid in the separation of presentation
and content
REST and/or XML- and/or JSON-based APIs
Mashups, merging content from different sources, client- and
server-side