Software configuration management: a roadmap
Proceedings of the Conference on The Future of Software Engineering
Parallel changes in large-scale software development: an observational case study
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
A State-of-the-Art Survey on Software Merging
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration
Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration
High-Level Best Practices in Software Configuration Management
ECOOP '98 Proceedings of the SCM-8 Symposium on System Configuration Management
A Branching/Merging Strategy for Parallel Software Development
SCM-9 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on System Configuration Management
Parallel Changes: Detecting Semantic Interferences
COMPSAC '05 Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference - Volume 01
Impact of software engineering research on the practice of software configuration management
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
The promises and perils of mining git
MSR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Empirical evidence in global software engineering: a systematic review
Empirical Software Engineering
Aligning software configuration management with governance structures
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Software Development Governance
The effect of branching strategies on software quality
Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Assessing the value of branches with what-if analysis
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
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The study of Software Configuration Management (SCM) has so far focused on the use of tools, SCM models, strategies, patterns or best practices. There are few industry studies on how an organization actually practices file branching and merging. In this empirical study at Océ, we have observed that some developers create branches freely without regards to their consequences on merging. This contradicts recommended best practices and SCM processes. So we investigate if there are hidden costs in propagating or merging changes at Océ. The investigation led us to understand that branching and merging can be done freely under certain circumstances to provide development concurrency. However, some files cannot be branched freely and it may be better to use recommended practices to edit them. Some roles were also noted to be more affected by branching of files.