US Patent 10095509 Supporting developer-user collaborative software review in IDE

A framework for collaborative software development in an integrated development environment (IDE) is described herein. In accordance with one aspect, an application (App) identifier is retrieved by a collaboration component. The App identifier links to a version of the App for a collaborative activity. A message associated to the collaborative activity may be posted in a social network. The collaboration component may then generate a collaboration identifier for the version of the App, where the collaboration identifier encodes the App identifier, a message identifier that links to the message posted in the social network, and an IDE identifier that links to the collaboration component in the IDE.