research-article

Saros: an eclipse plug-in for distributed party programming

Authors:

Stephan Salinger,

Christopher Oezbek,

Julia SchenkAuthors Info & Claims

CHASE '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

Pages 48 - 55

https://doi.org/10.1145/1833310.1833319

Published: 02 May 2010 Publication History

Abstract

This paper describes the social practice of distributed party programming as a natural extension of pair programming in a distributed context with two or more software developers working together. To this end we provide an overview of the Eclipse plug-in Saros, a software implementation supporting this practice, and explain its technical architecture. The central contribution of this paper is a detailed description of four concrete scenarios of distributed collaboration where one of them is distributed party programming. Furthermore it will be shown how each scenario is supported by Saros. The paper closes with a discussion of preliminary findings about establishing Saros in Open Source projects.

References

[1]

P. Baheti, E. Gehringer, and D. Stotts. Exploring the efficacy of distributed pair programming. In Extreme Programming and Agile Methods - XP/Agile Universe 2002, volume 2418 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 387--410. Springer, 2002.

[2]

P. Baudisch, E. Cutrell, and G. Robertson. High-density cursor: a visualization technique that helps users keep track of fast-moving mouse cursors. In INTERACT'03; IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 1st--5th September 2003, Zurich, Switzerland, 2003.

[3]

K. Beck. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999.

Digital Library

[4]

M. Bigler, S. Räss, and L. Zbinden. ACE---a collaborative editor. Project Report. http://swiki-lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar/ContextAware/uploads/25/ACE_-_A_Collaborative_Editor_-_Report_Evaluation_Algorithms.pdf. Last visited 2009-12-18, Apr. 2005.

[5]

T. Bipp, A. Lepper, and D. Schmedding. Pair programming in software development teams - an empirical study of its benefits. Information and Software Technology, 50(3):231--240, 2008.

Digital Library

[6]

S. Bryant, P. Romero, and B. du Boulay. Pair programming and the mysterious role of the navigator. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2008.

Digital Library

[7]

G. Canfora, A. Cimitile, and C. A. Visaggio. Lessons learned about distributed pair programming: what are the knowledge needs to address? In Twelfth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, pages 314--319, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2003. IEEE Computer Society.

Digital Library

[8]

J. Chong and T. Hurlbutt. The social dynamics of pair programming. In ICSE07: Proceedings of the 29th Int'l Conf. on Software Engineering, pages 354--363, Washington, DC, USA, 2007. IEEE Computer Society.

Digital Library

[9]

A. Cockburn. Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams. Addison Wesley, 2004.

Digital Library

[10]

D. Cox and S. Greenberg. Supporting collaborative interpretation in distributed groupware. In CSCW '00: Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, pages 289--298, New York, NY, USA, 2000. ACM.

Digital Library

[11]

P. Dewan, P. Agarwal, G. Shroff, and R. Hegde. Distributed side-by-side programming. In CHASE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Cooperative and human aspects of software engineering, pages 48--55, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2009. IEEE Computer Society.

Digital Library

[12]

R. Djemili, C. Oezbek, and S. Salinger. Saros: Eine Eclipse-Erweiterung zur verteilten Paarprogrammierung. In Software Engineering 2007 - Beiträge zu den Workshops, Hamburg, Germany, Mar. 2007. Gesellschaft für Informatik.

[13]

M. A. Domino, R. W. Collins, and A. R. Hevner. Controlled experimentation on adaptations of pair programming. Information Technology and Management, 8(4):297--312, 2007.

Digital Library

[14]

P. Dourish and V. Bellotti. Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces. In CSCW '92: Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work, pages 107--114, New York, NY, USA, 1992. ACM.

Digital Library

[15]

R. English and C. M. Schweik. Identifying success and abandonment of Free/Libre and Open Source (FLOSS) commons: A classification of Sourceforge.net projects. UPGRADE, VIII(6):54--59, Dec. 2007.

[16]

M. Fowler. Inversion of control containers and the dependency injection pattern. http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html, Jan. 2004.

[17]

M. S. Frankel and S. Siang. Ethical and legal aspects of human subjects research on the internet. Published by AAAS online, June 1999.

[18]

S. Freudenberg (née Bryant), P. Romero, and B. du Boulay. "Talking the talk": Is intermediate-level conversation the key to the pair programming success story? In AGILE 2007, pages 84--91, Washington, DC, USA, 2007. IEEE Computer Society.

Digital Library

[19]

C. Gutwin and S. Greenberg. The effects of workspace awareness support on the usability of real-time distributed groupware. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact., 6(3):243--281, 1999.

Digital Library

[20]

B. Hanks. Empirical evaluation of distributed pair programming. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 66(7):530--544, 2008. Collaborative and social aspects of software development.

Digital Library

[21]

J. E. Hannay, T. Dybå, E. Arisholm, and D. I. Sjøberg. The effectiveness of pair programming: A meta-analysis. Information and Software Technology, 51(7):1110--1122, 2009.

Digital Library

[22]

C.-W. Ho, S. Raha, E. Gehringer, and L. Williams. Sangam: a distributed pair programming plug-in for Eclipse. In eclipse '04: Proceedings of the 2004 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange, pages 73--77, New York, NY, USA, 2004. ACM.

Digital Library

[23]

C. Jacob. Weiterentwicklung eines Werkzeuges zur verteilten, kollaborativen Softwareentwicklung. Diplomarbeit, Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Apr. 2009.

[24]

C. Jensen, S. D. Farnham, S. M. Drucker, and P. Kollock. The effect of communication modality on cooperation in online environments. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems, volume 2, pages 470--477, 2000.

Digital Library

[25]

P. M. Johnson, H. Kou, J. M. Agustin, Q. Zhang, A. Kagawa, and T. Yamashita. Practical automated process and product metric collection and analysis in a classroom setting: Lessons learned from hackystat. In ISESE '04: Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, pages 136--144, Washington, DC, USA, 2004. IEEE Computer Society.

Digital Library

[26]

M. Kersten and G. C. Murphy. Mylar: a degree-of-interest model for IDEs. In AOSD '05: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development, pages 159--168, New York, NY, USA, 2005. ACM.

Digital Library

[27]

H. Natsu, J. Favela, A. L. Morán, D. Decouchant, and A. M. Martinez-Enriquez. Distributed pair programming on the web. In Fourth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC'03), pages 81--88, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2003. IEEE Computer Society.

Digital Library

[28]

K. Navoraphan, E. F. Gehringer, J. Culp, K. Gyllstrom, and D. Stotts. Next-generation dpp with sangam and facetop. In eclipse '06: Proceedings of the 2006 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange, pages 6--10, New York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM.

Digital Library

[29]

J. R. Nawrocki, M. Jasiñski, L. Olek, and B. Lange. Pair programming vs. side-by-side programming. In Software Process Improvement, volume 3792 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 28--38. Springer, 2005.

[30]

D. A. Nichols, P. Curtis, M. Dixon, and J. Lamping. High-latency, low-bandwidth windowing in the jupiter collaboration system. In UIST '95: Proceedings of the 8th annual ACM symposium on User interface and software technology, pages 111--120, New York, NY, USA, 1995. ACM.

Digital Library

[31]

J. T. Nosek. The case for collaborative programming. Communications of the ACM, 41(3):105--108, 1998.

Digital Library

[32]

L. Prechelt, U. Stärk, and S. Salinger. Types of cooperation episodes in Side-by-Side programming. In Proc. 21st Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG '09), Limerick, July 2009. ppig.org.

[33]

M. Reeves and J. Zhu. Moomba - A collaborative environment for supporting distributed Extreme Programming in global software development. In Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, volume 3092/2004 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 38--50. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, May 2004.

[34]

J. Rosenberg, R. Mahy, P. Matthews, and D. Wing. Session traversal utilities for NAT (STUN). Request for Comments 5389, Internet Engineering Task Force, Oct., 2008.

[35]

P. Saint-Andre. Extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP): Core. Request for Comments 3920, Internet Engineering Task Force, Oct., 2004.

[36]

P. Saint-Andre. Jingle: Jabber does multimedia. IEEE MultiMedia, 14(1):90--94, Jan. 2007.

Digital Library

[37]

S. Salinger, L. Plonka, and L. Prechelt. A coding scheme development methodology using grounded theory for qualitative analysis of pair programming. Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments, 4:9--25, 2008.

[38]

F. Schlesinger and S. Jekutsch. ElectroCodeoGram: An environment for studying programming. In Workshop on Ethnographies of Code, Infolab21, Lancaster University, UK, 30--31 March 2006.

[39]

T. Schümmer and J. Schümmer. Support for distributed teams in eXtreme Programming. In Extreme programming examined, pages 355--377. Addison-Wesley, Boston, MA, USA, 2001.

Digital Library

[40]

T. Schümmer and S. Lukosch. Supporting the social practices of distributed pair programming. In Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use, volume 5411 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 83--98. Springer, 2008.

[41]

J. Stark. Peer reviews as a quality management technique in Open-Source software development projects. In ECSQ '02: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Quality, pages 340--350, London, UK, 2002. Springer-Verlag.

Digital Library

[42]

D. Stotts, L. Williams, N. Nagappan, P. Baheti, D. Jen, and A. Jackson. Virtual teaming: Experiments and experiences with Distributed Pair Programming. In Extreme Programming and Agile Methods --- XP/Agile Universe 2003, volume 2753/2003 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 129--141. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, Sept. 2003.

[43]

C. Sun. Undo as concurrent inverse in group editors. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact., 9(4):309--361, Dec. 2002.

Digital Library

[44]

C. Sun and C. Ellis. Operational transformation in real-time group editors: issues, algorithms, and achievements. In CSCW '98: Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, pages 59--68, New York, NY, USA, 1998. ACM.

Digital Library

[45]

L. Williams, R. R. Kessler, W. Cunningham, and R. Jeffries. Strengthening the case for pair programming. IEEE Software, 17(4):19--25, 2000.

Digital Library

[46]

D. Winkler and S. Biffl. Evaluierung von Werkzeugen für Distributed Pair Programming: Eine Fallstudie. In In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Software & Systems Engineering Essentials, Berlin, Germany, May 2009.

[47]

S. Ziller. Behandlung von Nebenläufigkeitsaspekten in einem Werkzeug zur Verteilten Paarprogrammierung. Diplomarbeit, Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Oct. 2009.

Cited By

Jiang JFu QWang MLiu ZLyu JFan H(2024)Error-Tolerant Code Segmentation for Supporting Semantic Conflict Prevention in Real-Time Collaborative Programming2024 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)10.1109/SMC54092.2024.10832108(4588-4593)Online publication date: 6-Oct-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC54092.2024.10832108
Yang SPoonawala AJiang TSchneider B(2023)Can Synchronous Code Editing and Awareness Tools Support Remote Tutoring? Effects on Learning and TeachingProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/36101777:CSCW2(1-30)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3610177
Goswami LZeinoddin PEstier TCherubini M(2023)Supporting Collaboration in Introductory Programming Classes Taught in Hybrid Mode: A Participatory Design StudyProceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3563657.3596042(1248-1262)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563657.3596042
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Saros: an eclipse plug-in for distributed party programming
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
    2. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
    2. Software configuration management and version control systems

Recommendations

A groupware system to support collaborative programming: Design and experiences

The advances in network and collaboration technologies enable the creation of powerful environments for collaborative programming. One such environment is COLLECE, a groupware system to support collaborative edition, compilation and execution of ...
Collaboard: a remote collaboration groupware device featuring an embodiment-enriched shared workspace
GROUP '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

In this paper we present a mixed presence groupware device called "CollaBoard". The device improves collaboration between co-located and remote partners by providing a high level of workspace awareness. This is achieved by superimposing a life-size ...
Role-based interfaces for collaborative software development
UIST '11 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium adjunct on User interface software and technology

Real-time collaboration between multiple simultaneous contributors to a shared document is full of both opportunities and pitfalls, as evidenced by decades of research and industry work in computer-supported cooperative work. In the domain of software ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

CHASE '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

May 2010

127 pages

ISBN:9781605589664

DOI:10.1145/1833310

General Chairs:
Yvonne Dittrich
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
,
Cleidson de Souza
IBM Brazil, Brazil
,
Mikko Korpela
University of Eastern Finland, Finland
,
Helen Sharp
Open University, UK
,
Janice Singer
NRC, Canada
,
Heike Winshiers-Theophilus
Polytechnic of Namibia, Namibia

Copyright © 2010 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 02 May 2010

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

ICSE '10

Sponsor:

SIGSOFT

ICSE '10: 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering

May 2, 2010

Cape Town, South Africa

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 47 of 70 submissions, 67%

Upcoming Conference

ICSE 2025

2025 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering

April 26 - May 3, 2025

Ottawa , ON , Canada

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

53
Total Citations
View Citations
526
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)4
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 01 Mar 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Jiang JFu QWang MLiu ZLyu JFan H(2024)Error-Tolerant Code Segmentation for Supporting Semantic Conflict Prevention in Real-Time Collaborative Programming2024 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)10.1109/SMC54092.2024.10832108(4588-4593)Online publication date: 6-Oct-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC54092.2024.10832108
Yang SPoonawala AJiang TSchneider B(2023)Can Synchronous Code Editing and Awareness Tools Support Remote Tutoring? Effects on Learning and TeachingProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/36101777:CSCW2(1-30)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3610177
Goswami LZeinoddin PEstier TCherubini M(2023)Supporting Collaboration in Introductory Programming Classes Taught in Hybrid Mode: A Participatory Design StudyProceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3563657.3596042(1248-1262)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563657.3596042
Jiang JXie YFang BWang MFan H(2023)Building Temporary Isolated Workspace in Real-Time Collaborative Programming Environment2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)10.1109/SMC53992.2023.10394060(4110-4115)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC53992.2023.10394060
Zhu FXie XFeng DMeng NHe F(2023)On the methodology of three-way structured merge in version control systemsJournal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal10.1016/j.sysarc.2023.103011145:COnline publication date: 1-Dec-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.sysarc.2023.103011
Satratzemi MStelios XTsompanoudi D(2022)Distributed Pair Programming in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature ReviewJournal of Educational Computing Research10.1177/0735633122112288461:3(546-577)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2022
https://doi.org/10.1177/07356331221122884
Potluri VPandey MBegel ABarnett MReitherman S(2022)CodeWalk: Facilitating Shared Awareness in Mixed-Ability Collaborative Software DevelopmentProceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility10.1145/3517428.3544812(1-16)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517428.3544812
Robe PKuttal S(2022)Designing PairBuddy—A Conversational Agent for Pair ProgrammingACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/349832629:4(1-44)Online publication date: 5-May-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498326
Zhu FXie XFeng DMeng NHe F(2022)Mastery: Shifted-Code-Aware Structured MergingDependable Software Engineering. Theories, Tools, and Applications10.1007/978-3-031-21213-0_5(70-87)Online publication date: 11-Dec-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21213-0_5
Zhevaho O(2021)An Overview of Tools for Collecting Data on Software Development and Debugging Processes from Integrated Development EnvironmentsScience and Transport Progress10.15802/stp2021/242042(24-37)Online publication date: 15-Jun-2021
https://doi.org/10.15802/stp2021/242042
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Figures

Tables

Media

View Table of Conten