Challenges and issues in collaborative software developments

TL;DR

This paper surveys collaborative software development, highlighting challenges like communication and coordination issues, and discusses their impact on software quality in large, complex projects.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of challenges in collaborative software development and analyzes their effects on project success and quality.

Findings

Communication issues hinder collaboration effectiveness

Coordination challenges impact project timelines

Support and lifecycle management affect software quality

Abstract

The software development process has evolved with respect to the problems in developing large and complex applications. There is a paradigm shift towards collaborative development, which necessitates the need to evaluate this approach. A number of tools are used for collaborative software development (CSD) including social media and web 2.0 features. Collaborative development facilities are provided by IDEs and project hosting websites. In this paper, we present a survey of collaboratively developed projects and discuss challenges and issues in CSD. We analyze various issues of communication, coordination, support, lifecycle management and discuss their effect on software quality.