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CHIME: A Metadata-Based Distributed Software Development Environment

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Software Engineering — ESEC/FSE ’99 (ESEC 1999, SIGSOFT FSE 1999)

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We introduce CHIME, the Columbia Hypermedia IMmersion Environment, a metadata-based information environment, and describe its potential applications for internet and intranet-based distributed software development. CHIME derives many of its concepts from Multi-User Domains (MUDs), placing users in a semi-automatically generated 3D virtual world representing the software system. Users interact with project artifacts by “walking around” the virtual world, where they potentially encounter and collaborate with other users’ avatars. CHIME aims to support large software development projects, in which team members are often geographically and temporally dispersed, through novel use of virtual environment technology. We describe the mechanisms through which CHIME worlds are populated with project artifacts, as well as our initial experiments with CHIME and our future goals for the system.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Columbia University, 500 W. 120th St. 450 Computer Science, New York, NY, 10027, USA

    Stephen E. Dossick & Gail E. Kaiser

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  1. Institut für Informatik (IAM), Universität Bern, Neubrückstr. 10, CH-3012, Bern, Switzerland

    Oscar Nierstrasz

  2. ONERA Centre de Toulouse, DPRS/SAE, 2, Ave. E. Belin, F-31055, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Michel Lemoine

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Dossick, S.E., Kaiser, G.E. (1999). CHIME: A Metadata-Based Distributed Software Development Environment. In: Nierstrasz, O., Lemoine, M. (eds) Software Engineering — ESEC/FSE ’99. ESEC SIGSOFT FSE 1999 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1687. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48166-4_28

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