OPTIMIZING REAL-TIME CODE COLLABORATION

Abstract

Software development practices are becoming increasingly complex and as remote teams become more commonplace, the need for platforms that facilitate appropriate synchronous collaboration is necessary. This paper investigates existing collaborative coding environments and highlights their key limitations such as latency, lack of real-time synchronization capabilities, the integration of separate communication tools, and limited role-based access control. Utilizing a literature review and a problem-focused analysis of current collaborative coding tools, this research emphasizes the need for an integration of programming and communication tools. In response to some of the limitations identified in the review, the paper offers Code Bridge as an example of integrated real-time collaboration, chat, session management, and scalable role-based access. The results offered in this research provide both academic and practical contributions to the improvement and future research of collaborative coding development tools, and more broadly collaborative online learning and remote collaboration in distributed teams.