Wikis4SE @ WikiSym2007

The Second Workshop on Wikis for Software Engineering happened on on Sunday, 21st October, 13:30-17:00, room 510C at WikiSym 2007.

The simplicity and effectiveness of wikis as a medium for collaborative authoring has lead to their explosive popularity across many domains, and attention has largely shifted to those domains.

In the software development domain, many organizations continue to use wikis to support software projects and have gained experience and insights on their power and limitations. Meanwhile, researchers and practitioners are coming up with new ways to support the unique needs of software development, and of integrating wikis into the development process.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts interested in exploring the potential of wikis as an effective tool to support software engineering activities.

Specifically, it is an opportunity to:

• Learn from the knowledge and experience gained in using wikis for software engineering.
• Learn about wiki implementations and tools specific to the needs of software engineering.
• Identify benefits and best practices.
• Identify limitations and challenges.
• Develop an agenda for future research and development to advance the state of the art.
• Establish new collaborations between researchers and practitioners.

Examples of relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

• Experience
  • Reports on experiences in using wikis to support software engineering.
  • Wikis in software engineering educational settings.
  • Practices and tips you would like to share.
  • Evaluation of the applicability of specific wiki implementations and features.
• Integration
  • Integration of wikis with software engineering tools (IDEs, modeling tools, test tools, Q&A tools, configuration management systems, etc.).
  • wikis as front-ends or as actual knowledge management platforms in software projects.
  • wiki as a collaboration tool in global software development
• Extensions and tools
  • wiki engines with specialized support for software projects
  • Specific markup languages for software development.
  • Tools based on wiki principles
  • Mechanisms for preserving the semantic connection between Wikis and software artifacts.

Admission is free for WikiSym2007 participants. However, for organizational purposes, we would like to know who is intending to participate. There are two ways to let us know. The best one is to add yourself in the participants list in this wiki introducing you and your interest on the workshop. Another way is to send us an email to organizers@wikis4se.org.

• 1:30-1:45 Welcome
• 1:45-2:45 Ward Cunningham keynote
• 2:45-3:30 Presentations - Experience Reports (15 minutes each, including questions)
  • 2:45-3:00 ”The Culture of Collaboration”, David Biesack (SAS Institute)
  • 3:00-3:15 ”Wikis for Women - An Experience Report”, Anthony Cox (Dalhousie University) and Maryanne Fisher (Saint Mary’s University)
  • 3:15-3:30 ”The Role of Wiki Technology in Student Global Software Development - Are All Students Ready?”, Olly Gotel, (Pace University), Vidya Kulkarni (University of Delhi), Long Chrea Neak (Institute of Technology of Cambodia) and Christelle Scharff (Pace University)
• 3:30-3:45 Presentations - Research (15 minutes each, including questions)
  • 3:30-3:45 ”Incorporating Wikis Into Software Repository Mining”, Michael T. Helmick, James D. Kiper, Janet Burge, Valerie Cross and Gerald Gannod (Miami University)
  • 3:45-4:00 ”Building a Pattern Repository - Benefitting from the Open, Lightweight, and Participative Nature of Wikis”, Michael Weiss (Carleton University) and Aliaksandr Birukou (University of Trento)
  • 4:00-4:15 ”Lightweight End-user Programming with Wikis”, Craig Anslow and Dirk Riehle (SAP Research)
  • 4:15-4:30 ”A Component-Based, Agile Software Development Wiki”, Chris Lüer (Ball State University)
• 4:30-4:55 (small) Discussion
• 4:55-5:00 Closing
• 5:30-7:00pm: BoF on Wikis4SE over dinner, somewhere in a bar/restaurant nearby.

Here's a list of some of the people who attended the workshop. If you did and your name is not listed, please edit the page and add your name.

• Ademar Aguiar (University of Porto), co-organizer
• Paulo Merson (SEI, Carnegie Melon), co-organizer
• Uri Dekel (Carnegie Melon University), co-organizer
• Ward Cunningham (AboutUs.org), invited speaker
• David Biesack (SAS Institute), author, participant
• Anthony Cox (Dalhousie University), author, participant
• Maryanne Fisher (Saint Mary’s University), author, participant
• Olly Gotel (Pace University), author, participant
• Vidya Kulkarni (University of Delhi), author, participant
• Long ChreaNeak (Institute of Technology of Cambodia), author, participant
• Christelle Scharff (Pace University), author, participant
• Michael Helmick (), author, participant
• James Kiper (Miami University), author, participant
• Janet Burge (Miami University), author, participant
• Valerie Cross (Miami University), author, participant
• Gerald Gannod (Miami University), author, participant
• Michael Weiss (Carleton University), author, participant
• Aliaksandr Birukou (University of Trento), author, participant
• Craig Anslow (SAP Research), author, participant
• Dirk Riehle (SAP Research), author, participant
• Chris Lüer (Ball State University), author, participant
• XiaoWen Peng (IBM China Research Laboratory), participant
• Adrian Fritsch (), participant
• Johann Ari (Brandeis University), participant
• Rene Witte (University of Karlsruhe), participant
• Bob Potter (Presagia, Montreal QC), participant
• if you attended add your name to this list

• Ademar Aguiar – University of Porto, Portugal
• Paulo Merson – Software Engineering Institute, USA
• Uri Dekel – Carnegie Mellon University, USA