Version control system tools empower developers to independently work on their
development tasks. These tools also facilitate the integration of changes through merging …

Collaborative software development depends on managing multiple versions of a program
which requires mechanisms to merge program versions to eventually deploy a single …

Structured merge tools exploit programming language syntactic structure to enhance merge
accuracy by reducing spurious conflicts reported by unstructured tools. By creating and …

When creating and maintaining programs, software developers make use of version control
software to store different versions of the source code. Version control software uses …

Software development is driven by the development team's decisions. Communicating the
rationale behind these decisions is essential for the projects success. Although the software …