Evaluating software merge quality
Mehdi Ahmed-Nacer, Pascal Urso, François Charoy · 2014
Software merging is a time-consuming and error-prone activity but essential to large-scale software development. Developers use software merging tools, but if such tools return results with too many conflicts and errors, this activity becomes even more difficult. To help developers, several algorithms have been proposed to improve the automation of merge tools. These algorithms aim at minimising conflict situations and therefore improving the productivity of the development team, however no general framework is proposed to evaluated and compare their result.