- By:
- Raybourn, Elaine; Milewicz, Reed; Rogers, David M; Sims, Benjamin; Watson, Gregory R; Gonsiorowski, Elsa; Willenbring, James
- Page Number:
- 1-11
- Book Title:
- SERP'21 - The 19th Int'l Conf on Software Engineering Research and Practice
- Publication Date:
- September 11, 2026
- Publisher Location:
- American Council on Science and Education, District of Columbia, United States of America
- Conference Name:
- The 2021 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing (CSCE'21)
- Conference Location:
- Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
- Conference Sponsor:
- American Council on Science and Education (ACSE)
Abstract
This paper introduces a data-driven approach toward re-thinking the characterization of a virtual organization as an aggregate, team of teams. We developed a repository mining toolkit, Reposcanner, to assist software teams in identifying opportunities for software process improvement and connected collaborations with other teams, thus characterizing efforts as team of teams. We use the example of continuous integration (CI) testing as an indicator of software development team productivity that signals potential best practices in which team of teams collaboration exists. Our preliminary findings indicate that the degree to which continuous integration testing is present can also signal the likelihood of related best practices, and a team of teams organizational structure.
