Enhancing collaborative synchronous UML modelling with fine-grained versioning of software artefacts

  • Authors:
  • A. De Lucia;F. Fasano;G. Scanniello;G. Tortora

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universití di Salerno, Via Ponte don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universití di Salerno, Via Ponte don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universití della Basilicata, Viale dell'Ateneo, 10 Macchia Romana, 85100 Potenza, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universití di Salerno, Via Ponte don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Software development teams are composed of people with different knowledge and skills, who contribute to a project from often widely dispersed locations. Software development in geographically distributed environments creates software engineering challenges due to the interaction among members of distributed teams and the management of consistency and concurrency among project artefacts. In this paper, we propose Synchronous collaborative modelling Tool Enhanced with VErsioning management (STEVE) a collaborative tool supporting distributed Unified Modelling Language (UML) modelling of software systems. The tool provides a communication infrastructure enabling the concurrent editing of the same UML diagram at the same time by distributed developers. Complex UML diagrams are decomposed and managed in a fine-grained hierarchy of sub-artefacts, thus providing change and configuration management functionalities for both the diagram and the graphical objects. Thus, software predefined diagram components can be consistently reused and shared across different diagrams of a given project.