Mining Workspace Updates in CVS

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Title	Mining Workspace Updates in CVS
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2007
Authors	Zimmermann, T
Secondary Title	Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'07:ICSE Workshops 2007)
Pagination	11 - 11
Publisher	IEEE
Place Published	Minneapolis, MN, USA
ISBN Number	0-7695-2950-X
Keywords	change management, cvs, developers, gcc, jboss, jedit, python, workspaces
Abstract	The version control archive CVS records not only all changes in a project but also activity data such as when developers create or update their workspaces. Furthermore, CVS records when it has to integrate changes because of parallel development. In this paper, we analyze the CVS activity data of four large open-source projects GCC, JBOSS, JEDIT, and PYTHON to investigate parallel development: What is the degree of parallel development? How frequently do conflicts occur during updates and how are they resolved? How do we identify changes that contain integrations?
DOI	10.1109/MSR.2007.22
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