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Effective communication and collaboration are among the most important elements of software development lifecycle. Especially, when software is developed online using development networks, it becomes more critical to incorporate effective communication and collaboration facilities all through software development process. These days web 2.0 based technologies offer a lot of support for communication and collaboration. These technologies are helpful in improving the process of software development by offering excellent support for communication and collaboration. The basic objective of this study is to assess and investigate the influence of effective communication and collaboration tools/facilities on the online collaborative software development. We establish nine hypotheses to analyze the relationship of web 2.0 based communication tools and software quality. We have found that online collaborative software development based on web 2.0 communication tools like blogs, instant messaging, project news and RSS feed etc. shows significant improvement in the software product and process quality.