A Lightweight Approach for Knowledge Sharing in Distributed Software Teams.

In collocated software development teams, informal communication is the key enabler for sharing knowledge. In distributed teams, development infrastructures have to fill communication gaps with light-weight articulation and sharing facilities for evolving development knowledge. We propose an ontology-based framework to capture, access and share developers΄ experiences in a decentralized, contextualized manner. Capturing developers΄ interaction with related artifacts and providing a Wiki-like annotation approach triggers knowledge capture. Integrated semantic search and recommendation fosters knowledge access and sharing. Our framework enables distributed teams to become more effective by learning from each other΄s experiences, e.g. on reusing specific components and handling semantic errors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]