1st International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Research Article

Collaborative development of business applications

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651239,
        author={Gautam Shroff and Anish Mehta and Puneet Agarwal and Rajesh Sinha},
        title={Collaborative development of business applications},
        proceedings={1st International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2006},
        month={7},
        keywords={Application software  Business  Collaboration  Collaborative software  Collaborative work  Computer architecture  Programming  Project management  Testing  Virtual groups},
        doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651239}
    }
    
  • Gautam Shroff
    Anish Mehta
    Puneet Agarwal
    Rajesh Sinha
    Year: 2006
    Collaborative development of business applications
    COLLABORATECOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651239
Gautam Shroff1,*, Anish Mehta1,*, Puneet Agarwal1,*, Rajesh Sinha1,*
  • 1: Technology Innovation Lab, Tata Consultancy Services
*Contact email: gautam.shroff@tcs.com, anish.mehta@tcs.com, puneet.a@tcs.com, rajesh.sinha@tcs.com

Abstract

Collaborative software development models, inspired by the open source community, are also being considered for development and deployment of business applications. We describe current work and future directions towards a hosted model to support collaboration during software development. We submit that such a platform can enable rapid application development, facilitate globally located virtual teams spanning locations to work as a single unit, and also encourage re-use, especially of technical frameworks. Going forward, we foresee extending such environments to providing an end-to-end development process accessible to globally distributed virtual teams.