DIFFERENCING AND MERGING OF SOFTWARE DIAGRAMS - State of the Art and Challenges

Sabrina Förtsch, Bernhard Westfechtel

2007

Abstract

For long, fine-grained version control for software documents has been neglected severely. Typically, software configuration management systems support the management of text or binary files. Unfortunately, text-based tools for fine-grained version control are not adequate for software documents produced in earlier phases in the software life cycle. Frequently, these documents have a graphical syntax; therefore we will call them software diagrams. This paper discusses the current state of the art in fine-grained version control (differencing and merging) for software diagrams with an emphasis on UML diagrams.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Förtsch S. and Westfechtel B. (2007). DIFFERENCING AND MERGING OF SOFTWARE DIAGRAMS - State of the Art and Challenges . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-06-7, pages 90-99. DOI: 10.5220/0001342900900099

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft07,
author={Sabrina Förtsch and Bernhard Westfechtel},
title={DIFFERENCING AND MERGING OF SOFTWARE DIAGRAMS - State of the Art and Challenges},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2007},
pages={90-99},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001342900900099},
isbn={978-989-8111-06-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - DIFFERENCING AND MERGING OF SOFTWARE DIAGRAMS - State of the Art and Challenges
SN - 978-989-8111-06-7
AU - Förtsch S.
AU - Westfechtel B.
PY - 2007
SP - 90
EP - 99
DO - 10.5220/0001342900900099