Workspace awareness in application development

Coordination of development activities is often the most crucial success factor in a software development team. Typically, teams rely on configuration management (CM) systems for coordination purposes. CM systems manage concurrent development by isolating workspaces. As a result of this isolation, developers are aware of concurrent changes only when they interact with the repository and when changes have already been completed. Breaking this isolation would enable developers to detect potential conflicts as they occur in the workspaces and proactively take steps to avoid them. Our Eclipse plug-in, Palant´ır, supports such a workstyle by showing which artifacts have been changed by which developers and by how much.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ECLIPSE
• Authors: Roger M. Ripley, Ryan Y. Yasui, Anita Sarma, André van der Hoek
• Keywords: Concurrent Changes, Crucial Success Factor, ECLIPSE 2004, Software Development Team