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CASI: preventing indirect conflicts through a live visualization

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Jones, James A. Servant, Francisco van der Hoek, André
Abstract	Software development is a collaborative activity that may lead to conflicts when changes are performed in parallel by several developers. Direct conflicts arise when multiple developers make changes in the same source code entity, and indirect conflicts are produced when multiple developers make changes to source code entities that depend on each other. Previous approaches of code analysis either cannot predict all kinds of indirect conflicts, since they can be caused by syntactic or semantic changes, or they produce so much information as to make them virtually useless. Workspace awareness techniques have been proposed to enhance software configuration management systems by providing developers with information about the activity that is being performed by other developers. Most workspace awareness tools detect direct conflicts while only some of them warn about potential indirect conflicts. We propose a new approach to the problem of indirect conflicts. Our tool CASI informs developers of the changes that are taking place in a software project and the source code entities influenced by them. We visualize this influence together with directionality and severity information to help developers decide whether a concrete situation represents an indirect conflict. We introduce our approach, explain its implementation, discuss its behavior on an example, and lay out several steps that we will be taking to improve it in the future.
Starting Page	39
Ending Page	46
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781605589664
DOI	10.1145/1833310.1833317
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2010-05-02
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Software configuration management Workspace awareness Conflicts Software visualization Parallel work
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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