A Social Collaborative virtual environment for software development

Software development teams often require information and expert help that are not supported by conventional development environments. This paper presents a social development environment called SCI (Social Collaborative IDE) that unifies the concepts of social network and collaborative development environment. SCI integrates presence and activity awareness information and collaborative program development tools. The activity awareness information provides inter-project and inter-session sharing and awareness of other developers' behavior. The collaboration tools provide a wide range of facilities for synchronous and asynchronous collaboration and information sharing between team members. SCI presents a framework that manages pending invitations of team members.