Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2008) Li-te Cheng IBM, USA li-te_cheng@us.ibm.com Cleidson de Souza UFPA, Brazil cdesouza@ufpa.br Yvonne Dittrich IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark ydi@itu.dk Orit Hazzan Technion, Israel oritha@techunix.technion.ac.il Michael John Fraunhofer, Germany michael.john@first.fraunhofer.de Frank Maurer University of Calgary, Canada frank.maurer@ucalgary.ca Helen Sharp Open University, UK h.c.sharp@open.ac.uk Jonathan Sillito University of Calgary, Canada sillito@ucalgary.ca Susan Elliot Sim University of CA, Irvine, USA, ses@ics.uci.edu Janice Singer NRC, Canada janice.singer@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Margaret-Anne Storey University of Victoria, Canada mastorey@uvic.ca Bjørnar Tessem University of Bergen, Norway bjornar.tessem@infomedia.uib.no Gina Venolia Microsoft Research, USA gina.venolia@microsoft.com ABSTRACT The CHASE 2008 workshop is concerned with exploring the cooperative and human aspects of software engineering, and providing a forum for discussing high-quality resarch. Accepted papers reflect the diversity of the field of software engineering– ranging from requirements to testing, and from ethnographic research to experiments. Moreover, the background of attendees reflects the diversity of researchers in this domain, ranging from sociology to psychology, from informatics to software engineering. CHASE 2008 met its goals in presenting high-quality research and building community through a mixture of presentations, discussions, posters, and social activities. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.0 [Software Engineering]: General General Terms Human Factors, Experimentation, Management. Keywords Collaboration, Process, Distributed Teams, Organizations, Design, Social Networks. . 1. INTRODUCTION Software is created by people - software engineers working in varied environments, under diverse conditions. Thus understanding the cooperative and human aspect of software development is crucial to understanding how methods and tools are used. This knowledge is needed to improve methods and tools and thereby improve both the creation and maintenance of software. Over the last several years, a renaissance of sorts is occurring in this research topic, with a growing body of research being published in software engineering venues as well as other research discourses. A critical mass of high quality work has been emerging, for example a dedicated workshop [4], a special issue of a journal [2], and a textbook [5]. Thus the time is right to bring together researchers to share knowledge, and further build the research area. The goal of CHASE 2008 is therefore to provide a forum for discussing high quality research on the cooperative and human aspects of software engineering, as well as a meeting place for the nascent community that is currently distributed over several different research domains, of which the primary ones are Software Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, Information Systems and Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Copyright 2008 Association for Computing Machinery. ACM acknow- ledges that this contribution was co-authored by an affiliate of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). As such, the Crown in Right of Canada retains an equal interest in the copyright. Reprint requests should be forwarded to ACM, and reprints must include clear attribution to ACM and NRC. ICSE’08, May 10-18, 2008, Leipzig, Germany. Copyright 2008 ACM 978-1-60558-079-1/08/05...$5.00 1067