Software Development. A cooperative approach

Computer-Supported Cooperative Software Development (CS-CSD) encompasses the questions of furnishing the necessary conditions for a successful teamwork on software development, being people workstations located in the same room or distributed among several remote places and connected over network. The aim of the current paper is to bring together aspects of the CSD process and propose a global environment to support it. Our considerations are mainly based on the experience acquired during the development of our own CSD prototype, which enables groups of 2 to 6 developers to cooperate during the various phases of a software project. A cooperative multimedia editing environment is available for the whole development cycle, including mechanisms of computer-conferencing (text, audio and video communications).