A Uniform Declarative Framework for Automated Software Merging
Tom Mens, Kim Mens · Digital Access to Libraries · 2000
We report on a prototype tool that automates the time-consuming and error-prone process of software merging. Our tool is significantly more flexible than existing merge techniques, as it can detect syntactic, structural as well as semantic conflicts. It is implemented as a general framework for software evolution that can be customised to many different domains. Because of this, it can be used to support evolution of any kind of software artifact, independent of the target language or the considered phase in the software life cycle.