Modeling and Verification of Change Processes in Collaborative Software Engineering

Huyen, Phan Thi Thanh; Hiraishi, Kunihiko; Ochimizu, Koichiro

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39646-5_2

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“…Recent CSD tools are designed to inform developers about indirect conflicts. Tools like Ariadne , CodeBook , YooHoo and Change Support Environment obtain dependency relationship between various artifacts in a project, stored in an SCM repository, and provide useful visualizations of the change awareness information. However, these tools do so in non‐real‐time.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting collaborative software development over GitHub

2016

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Summary GitHub is a web‐based, distributed Software Configuration Management (SCM) system build over Git, which enables developers to host shared repositories over the Internet and access them from any location, at any time. It helps developers to effectively orchestrate their activities over shared codebases by capturing direct conflicts arising because of concurrent editing on the same shared artifact. However, SCM systems have limited support for capturing inconsistencies arising because of indirect conflicts which arise because of software dependency relationships that exist between related artifacts, and lead to the introduction of syntactic and semantic inconsistencies in codebases. In this paper, we propose a novel collaborative software development (CSD) tool named, Collaboration Over GitHub (COG), that provides real‐time information about arising direct and indirect conflicts among collaborative developers, working over GitHub, through a collection of workspace awareness widgets. These widgets provide people‐centric information about direct and indirect collaborators over GitHub. Resource‐centric information about current and conflicting activities of real‐time collaborators is captured and propagated to others, based on the dependency relationships between software artifacts being manipulated by them. COG uses dependency graphs to store and process dependency relationship information which is required to ascertain information about indirect conflicts. Notably, the most important novel contribution of COG is that it not only captures indirect conflicts that lead to the introduction of syntactic inconsistencies but also changes that lead to semantic inconsistencies in the codebase. It also does so at finer levels of granularity, with changes to individual method's body being traced, thereby capturing statement‐level conflicts as well. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%