The introduction of machine learning (ML) components in software projects has created the
need for software engineers to collaborate with data scientists and other specialists. While …

Researchers are currently drawn to study projects hosted on GitHub due to its popularity,
ease of obtaining data, and its distinctive built-in social features. GitHub has been found to …

When multiple developers change a software system in parallel, these concurrent changes
need to be merged to all appear in the software being developed. Numerous merge …

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 …

Background. During collaborative software development, developers often use branches to
add features or fix bugs. When merging changes from two branches, conflicts may occur if …

Along the last decade, many companies started using Distributed Software Development
(DSD). The distribution of the software development teams over the globe has become …

In collaborative software development, merge conflicts arise when developers integrate
concurrent code changes. Practitioners seek to minimize the number of merge conflicts …

Empirical studies show that merge conflicts frequently occur, impairing developers'
productivity, since merging conflicting contributions might be a demanding and tedious task …

Context Lack of coordination may create significant problems between work teams, this
problem is even most critical when team workers are geographically distributed as it results …

Computer-aided design (CAD) has become indispensable to increasingly collaborative
hardware design processes. Despite the long-standing and growing need for collaboration …