Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
A flexible object merging framework
CSCW '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Using a configuration management tool to coordinate software development
COCS '95 Proceedings of conference on Organizational computing systems
Coordination, overload and team performance: effects of team communication strategies
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Parallel changes in large-scale software development: an observational case study
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration
Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration
Empirical Software Engineering
"Breaking the code", moving between private and public work in collaborative software development
GROUP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Introducing collaboration into an application development environment
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
CVS integration with notification and chat: lightweight software team collaboration
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
FASTDash: a visual dashboard for fostering awareness in software teams
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Supporting distributed software development by modes of collaboration
ECSCW'01 Proceedings of the seventh conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Awareness in the Wild: Why Communication Breakdowns Occur
ICGSE '07 Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Software Engineering
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Empirical evidence of the benefits of workspace awareness in software configuration management
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Dimensions of tools for detecting software conflicts
Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Recommendation systems for software engineering
Customized awareness: recommending relevant external change events
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
An exploratory study of awareness interests about software modifications
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
Proactive detection of collaboration conflicts
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
Cassandra: proactive conflict minimization through optimized task scheduling
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Security of public continuous integration services
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
Making offline analyses continuous
Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
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Merge conflicts cause software defects which if detected late may require expensive resolution. This is especially true when developers work too long without integrating concurrent changes, which in practice is common as integration generally occurs at check-in. Awareness of others' activities was proposed to help developers detect conflicts earlier. However, it requires developers to detect conflicts by themselves and may overload them with notifications, thus making detection harder. This paper presents a novel solution that continuously merges uncommitted and committed changes to create a background system that is analyzed, compiled, and tested to precisely and accurately detect conflicts on behalf of developers, before check-in. An empirical study confirms that our solution avoids overloading developers and improves early detection of conflicts over existing approaches. Similarly to what happened with continuous compilation, this introduces the case for continuous merging inside the IDE.