Coven: brewing better collaboration through software configuration management

  • Authors:
  • Mark C. Chu-Carroll;Sara Sprenkle

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center 30 Saw Mill, River Road Hawthorne, NY;Department of Computer Science, Levine Science Research Center, Duke University, Durham, NC

  • Venue:
  • SIGSOFT '00/FSE-8 Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering: twenty-first century applications
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Our work focuses on building tools to support collaborative software development. We are building a new programming environment with integrated software configuration management which provides a variety of features to help programming teams coordinate their work.In this paper, we detail a hierachy-based software configuration management system called Coven, which acts as a collaborative medium for allowing teams of programmers to cooperate. By providing a family of inter-related mechanisms, our system provides powerful support for cooperation and coordination in a manner which matches the structure of development teams.