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is a part of a different design team and has an earlier deadline that does not involve
this particular component. Because of this deadline, the service programmer is not
being very responsive to the requests from the first programmer. Also, other program-
mers from multiple teams have been in need of this particular service for a while, and
have been making many requests to the responsible programmer, to no avail. he
programmers who all need this service and cannot get access to it somehow find each
other and realize that they are all in the same predicament. he visualization given for
this situation by the Ariadne plug-in is shown in Figure 15.10. It is one of the main
design principles of the application that software developers should be able to easily
find other developers and programmers who are in similar situations as themselves.
his capability gives the software development team as a whole a greater probability
of high throughput. An easy way for Ariadne, or any other sociotechnical framework,
to make this capability available to programmers is to offer a database system of some
kind that offers a simple interface to the sociotechnical dependencies of the entire
collaborative software development package. he visualization provided by Ariadne
that offers this view, the view shown in Figure 15.10, is called the “Finding Similar
Developers view.” his view is similar to the Establishing Dependencies View that was
built for the second scenario of the paper in question. However, instead of associating
programmers with the code that they have a dependency with, the Finding Similar
Developers View associates programmers with other developers that they may need to
associate with based on the sociotechnical dependencies of the software development
Dependency
Programmer
Figure15.10
FindingSimilarDevelopersViewofAriadne.(FromdeSouza,C.R.
etal.2007.Supportingcollaborativesoftwaredevelopmentthroughthevisual-
izationofsocio-technicaldependencies.In
Proceedings of the 2007 International
ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work
(Sanibel Island, Florida, USA,
November04-07,2007).GROUP'07.ACM,NewYork,147-156.)
