13/11/06: Chintan Amrit: Detection of Socio-Technical Structure Clashes (STSCs) in Software Development

Software development is rarely an individual effort and generally involves teams of developers collaborating together in order to generate good reliable code. We can analyze the social networks of the developers to locate collaboration problems. Further, there exists technical dependencies in the software code; these dependencies arise from components, which inevitably use services from other components, creating a call graph. The different ways of assigning the design, development and testing of these software modules to people cause various socio-technical structure clashes (STSCs). The aim of this research is to effectively recognize and monitor these STSCs related to software development. We are in the process of developing a metamodel that helps us in representing these STSCs and implementing a tool based on it.