Model of a system for team software development

A Comparison and the Desireable Features of Version Control Tools

“…A program block is a part of the source code which represents a logical unit [4]. However, if two or more programmers make independent changes on the same program block at the same time, it will be necessary to unite their versions, which means that their source code will be compared manually.…”

“…The analyzed tools are Visual Source Safe [7], [10] and Concurrent Version System [1], [5], both available on the market, and a version control tool named Builder which was developed by a private company for their own use. [4] Table 2 presents the comparison of certain characteristics of these tools according to certain criteria. These criteria were defined in such a way to help us decide which one of them is better for team software development [2].…”

“…[4] Table 2 presents the comparison of certain characteristics of these tools according to certain criteria. These criteria were defined in such a way to help us decide which one of them is better for team software development [2]. Regarding the Version update criterion it was determined both CVS and VSS update the work copy with new lines of program code from the repository, which can cause conflicts, while the Builder tool updates the work copy on the programmer's computer only with those program modules which the user did not change in the work copy, but which have been changed in the meantime in the repository.…”