Awareness of Concurrent Changes in Distributed Software Development

  • Authors:
  • Claudia-Lavinia Ignat;Gérald Oster

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, Nancy-Université, France;INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, Nancy-Université, France

  • Venue:
  • OTM '08 Proceedings of the OTM 2008 Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, GADA, IS, and ODBASE 2008. Part I on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems:
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Traditional software development tools such as CVS and Subversion do not inform users about concurrent modifications while they work on shared projects in their local workspaces. We propose an awareness mechanism that informs users about location of concurrent changes at the level of class, method and line. Developers are provided with a preview of the concurrent changes made by other contributors on the project. They can continue to change and test their code without the need to integrate concurrent changes. We present the underlying algorithms of our proposed awareness mechanism.