THE ROLE AND BENEFITS OF VERSION CONTROL SYSTEMS IN COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Sagar Vishnubhai Sheta · Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology · 2019
The paper propounds the use and benefit of VC systems particularly Git in ensemble software development. Version control has remained an important feature for the present software engineering that it guarantees the possible instruments for the tracking of the code change, branches, and others, in case of a conflict between a group of developers. The implementation demonstrates how Git also supports parallel development on a file while at the same time enhancing the code visibility of projects and organizing them within a single repository. In addition, the contribution history is used in fulfilling the accountability of a certain commit and debug process. In the case of pushing and pulling changes, employees’ work of all members of remote teams is properly set and configured to establish the required coordination and integration of their performances when managing a project and minimizing risks. Another hypothesis of this paper is that Git improves such aspects as collaboration teams, code quality, and integration of project deliverables in settings where parallel development is needed.