Wikis for Software Engineering

Due to their simplicity, attractiveness and effectiveness for collaborative authoring and knowledge management, wikis are now massively disseminated and used in different domains.

This workshop focuses on wikis for the specific domain of software engineering.

It aims at bringing together researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts interested in researching, exploring and learning how wikis can be improved, customized and used to better support software engineering.

Based on lessons learned and obstacles identified, a research agenda will be defined with key opportunities and challenges.

This edition at WikiSym 2009 follows others at ICSE 2009, WikiSym 2008 and WikiSym 2007.

Participation in Wikis4SE@WikiSym 2009 is open!

Join us!

WHEN: Monday, October 26th, 13h30-17h00
WHERE: Room Fantasia A.

Wikis are now widely spread on the web, especially in the software community.

They run on many different platforms, and are used to publish pages of different knowledge domains.

A large amount of the software documentation produced today is web-based. Since wikis provide a very effective environment for collaborative authoring of web-based documents, wikis are mainly used to support the edition, organization and storage of software documentation.

But wikis can do more.

They may be used to support other software engineering activities and even to inspire new ways of developing software.

This workshop focuses precisely on the usage of wikis to support software engineering activities to improve team collaboration and communication in software projects. The workshop also aims at identifying open issues that require research and development to yield an even wider usage and better integration of wikis with other software engineering tools and infrastructures.

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in exploring wikis as a cost-effective tool to support software engineering activities, and the production, organization and publication of software artifacts.

The goal is to learn from the knowledge and experience gained on using wikis in software projects, and based on that to identify best practices, issues, obstacles, key opportunities and challenges that could lead to the definition of an agenda and collaborations for future research.

Interesting topics for contribution are essential features of wikis for software engineering, demonstrations of integrating wikis with other software engineering tools (IDEs, test tools, Q&A tools, version-control systems, project management tools, communication tools, workflow systems, etc.); and knowledge management for software projects using wikis.

Continuing a fruitful discussion started at ICSE 2009, particularly relevant for this edition are positions and contributions related to the following questions:

• How to improve the wiki way in software development?
• What is missing in today’s software development to empower the wiki way?

Contributions for the workshop are mainly position statements and participation in group discussions.