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 …

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 …

This paper describes the results of a large (+ 1100 responses) survey of professional
software developers concerning standards for naming source code methods. The various …

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

Collaborative software development is an integral part of the modern software development
life cycle, essential to the success of large-scale software projects. When multiple …

Developers discuss software architecture and concrete source code implementations on a
regular basis, be it on question-answering sites, online chats, mailing lists or face to face. In …

Merge conflicts occur when developers make concurrent changes to the same part of the
code. They are an inevitable and disruptive aspect of collaborative software development …

With the rise of distributed software development, branching has become a popular
approach that facilitates collaboration between software developers. One of the biggest …

Merge conflicts are known to cause extra effort for developers, but little is known about their
effect on software. While some research has been done, many questions remain. To better …

We present Supa, a value-flow-based demand-driven flow-and context-sensitive pointer
analysis with strong updates for C and C++ programs. Supa enables computing points-to …