Towards real-time integration
Mário Luís Guimarães, António Rito Silva · 2010
Today, most developers work in parallel inside private workspaces to ensure stability during programming, but this provokes isolation from what co-workers are doing. Isolation may result in conflicts, which must be detected as early as possible to avoid bugs and expensive rework. Currently, frequent integration and awareness are used for early conflict detection. Frequent integration detects actual conflicts using automated builds, although only when merging checked in changes. Awareness informs about ongoing changes in private workspaces, however developers must find actual conflicts by themselves.