An architecture for integrating a web-based IDE and a project management system

Cloud-based services and applications for consumers today are increasingly becoming popular. Applications such as Dropbox allows users to synchronize data across computers while it automatically backs up data in the cloud. Google Docs allows users to create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations all from the web-browser. This innovation takes software as a service to a whole new level for consumers. For developers however, the cloud is indeed useful but under-utilized. In a typical software company, a workstation would have an Integrated Development Environmental (IDE) such as Eclipse installed used for development and a project management system used to track the progress of the project in the web. In recent years, these binary-based IDEs have become web-based IDEs. Some examples of such systems are CtrlSpace and CodeRun. Although web-based IDEs and project management systems are useful tools for software development, the two modules remain to be separate entities. There has not existed a way to seamlessly integrate a web-based IDE and a project management information about a task on hand, address the lack or insufficient of documentation which leads to difficulties in commending development, and, most important of all, effectively assist in managing change. Therefore, this research focuses on designing and developing a system that will seamlessly integrate web-based IDE’s and project management systems. The output of the research is an application named CtrlSpace2 that addressed the problems above