Task dependencies drive the need to coordinate work activities. We describe a technique for
using automatically generated archi-val data to compute coordination requirements, ie, who …

Prior research has shown that customer-reported software faults are often the result of
violated dependencies that are not recognized by developers implementing software. Many …

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 …

Merge conflicts cause software defects which if detected late may require expensive
resolution. This is especially true when developers work too long without integrating …

Software developers have long known that project success requires a robust understanding
of both technical and social linkages. However, research has largely considered these …

The earlier a conflict is detected, the easier it is to resolve-this is the main precept of
workspace awareness. Workspace awareness seeks to provide users with information of …

This paper proposes a framework for describing, comparing and understanding visualization
tools that provide awareness of human activities in software development. The framework …

Previous work has found that (a) when software is developed collaboratively, concurrent
accesses to related pieces of code are made, and (b) when these accesses are coordinated …

A computer code conflict notification and resolution technique that provides a collaborative
programming environment for conflicts management is presented. The technique detects …