Consistence Preserving Model Merge in Collaborative Development Processes.

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Title:	Consistence Preserving Model Merge in Collaborative Development Processes.
Authors:	Barlet, Christian¹ christian.bartelt@tu-clausthal.de
Source:	ICSE: International Conference on Software Engineering. 2008, p13-18. 6p. 9 Diagrams.
Subjects:	Software configuration management, Teams in the workplace, Configuration management, Software engineering, Computer software
Abstract:	Specification by models plays a decisive role, during the development process of complex systems. The division and concurrency of labor in teams is a further characteristic of such development. Therefore an efficient configuration and variant management of resulting documents is essential. In practice, a lot of establishe configuration management systems like CVS and Subversion are available which provide a text based merge. Unfortunately these systems are inappropriate for the management of models because they ignore the syntctic and semantic structure which is specified by the associated meta-models. Especially during the merge of model versions the mentioned systems fails at the generation of a meta-model consistent model. In this paper a proposal is presented which is enabled to merge model versions in a model based, collaborative development process. Furtermore meta-model independent methods for consistent-receiving model merging are explained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:	Specification by models plays a decisive role, during the development process of complex systems. The division and concurrency of labor in teams is a further characteristic of such development. Therefore an efficient configuration and variant management of resulting documents is essential. In practice, a lot of establishe configuration management systems like CVS and Subversion are available which provide a text based merge. Unfortunately these systems are inappropriate for the management of models because they ignore the syntctic and semantic structure which is specified by the associated meta-models. Especially during the merge of model versions the mentioned systems fails at the generation of a meta-model consistent model. In this paper a proposal is presented which is enabled to merge model versions in a model based, collaborative development process. Furtermore meta-model independent methods for consistent-receiving model merging are explained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]