An Exploratory Study of Developers’ Toolbox in an Agile Team

摘要: Although Agile teams supposedly value individuals and interactions over processes tools, tools still represent an important support for developers’ work. Existing studies investigate only partially tool usage in non-Agile teams. Moreover, it is not clear to which extent their findings are valid also This study takes the first steps towards understanding by investigating types variety of used actual purpose they employed. As expected, we found that communication accounts increased amount time, but, surprisingly, a large share represented instant messaging or email rather than face-to-face communication. Other show toolbox contains very small number relevant time spent on browsing Internet navigating through file system.