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. 1