Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Insights from empirical studies of the software design process
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special double issue: InfoJapan '90
Using a configuration management tool to coordinate software development
COCS '95 Proceedings of conference on Organizational computing systems
Version models for software configuration management
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Recomposition: putting it all back together again
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Distance, dependencies, and delay in a global collaboration
CSCW '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
An empirical study of global software development: distance and speed
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on 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
Local search with constraint propagation and conflict-based heuristics
Artificial Intelligence
Palantír: raising awareness among configuration management workspaces
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on 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
Mining Version Histories to Guide Software Changes
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Mylar: a degree-of-interest model for IDEs
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Process model and awareness in SCM
Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Software configuration management
FASTDash: a visual dashboard for fostering awareness in software teams
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mining Workspace Updates in CVS
MSR '07 Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
An empirical study of software developers' management of dependencies and changes
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
CAV '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computer Aided Verification
Dimensions of tools for detecting software conflicts
Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Recommendation systems for software engineering
Safe-commit analysis to facilitate team software development
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
TACAS'08/ETAPS'08 Proceedings of the Theory and practice of software, 14th international conference on Tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems
Syde: a tool for collaborative software development
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2
Improving conflict detection in optimistic concurrency control models
SCM'01/SCM'03 Proceedings of the 2001 ICSE Workshops on SCM 2001, and SCM 2003 conference on Software configuration management
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Awareness Network, To Whom Should I Display My Actions? And, Whose Actions Should I Monitor?
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Reducing the effort of bug report triage: Recommenders for development-oriented decisions
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Proactive detection of collaboration conflicts
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
On SAT modulo theories and optimization problems
SAT'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing
Improving early detection of software merge conflicts
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Palantír: Early Detection of Development Conflicts Arising from Parallel Code Changes
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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Software conflicts arising because of conflicting changes are a regular occurrence and delay projects. The main precept of workspace awareness tools has been to identify potential conflicts early, while changes are still small and easier to resolve. However, in this approach conflicts still occur and require developer time and effort to resolve. We present a novel conflict minimization technique that proactively identifies potential conflicts, encodes them as constraints, and solves the constraint space to recommend a set of conflict-minimal development paths for the team. Here we present a study of four open source projects to characterize the distribution of conflicts and their resolution efforts. We then explain our conflict minimization technique and the design and implementation of this technique in our prototype, Cassandra. We show that Cassandra would have successfully avoided a majority of conflicts in the four open source test subjects. We demonstrate the efficiency of our approach by applying the technique to a simulated set of scenarios with higher than normal incidence of conflicts.