Software developers are often faced with modification tasks that involve source which is
spread across a code base. Some dependencies between source code, such as those …

Current configuration management systems promote workspaces that isolate developers
from each other. This isolation is both good and bad It is good, because developers make …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide a feature‐based characterization of version
control systems (VCSs), providing an overview about the state‐of‐the‐art of versioning …

Change awareness is the ability of individuals to track the asynchronous changes made to a
collaborative document or graphical workspace by other participants over time. We develop …

Current text based software configuration management (SCM) systems have trouble with
refactorings. Refactorings result in global changes and lead to merge conflicts. A refactoring …

The adoption of distributed version control (DVC), such as Git and Mercurial, in open-source
software (OSS) projects has been explosive. Why is this and how are projects using DVC …

Current text based Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems have trouble with
refactorings. Refactorings result in global changes which lead to merge conflicts. A …

(60) Prov1s1onal appl1cat1on No. 60/486,708,? led on Jul. 10, 2003. In a disclosed method
that facilitates collaborative? le updating, data is accepted from one of a plurality of users …

Workspace awareness techniques have been proposed to enhance the effectiveness of
software configuration management systems in coordinating parallel work. These …

In an integrated development environment, the ability to manage the evolution of a software
system in terms of logical abstractions, compositions, and their interrelations is crucial to …