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Coven: brewing better collaboration through software configuration management

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Mark C. Chu-Carroll,

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 25, Issue 6

Pages 88 - 97

https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355058

Published: 01 November 2000 Publication History

Abstract

Our work focuses on building tools to support collaborative software development. We are building a new programming environment with integrated software configuration management which provides a variety of features to help programming teams coordinate their work.

In this paper, we detail a hierachy-based software configuration management system called Coven, which acts as a collaborative medium for allowing teams of programmers to cooperate. By providing a family of inter-related mechanisms, our system provides powerful support for cooperation and coordination in a manner which matches the structure of development teams.

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Coven: brewing better collaboration through software configuration management
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software version control
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
    2. Software configuration management and version control systems

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