Requirements for Practical Model Merge - An Industrial Perspective
(2009) 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems 5795. p.167-180- Abstract
- All the support tools that developers are used to must be in place, if the use of model-centric development in companies hits to take off. Industry deals with big models and many people working on the same model. Collaboration in a team inevitably leads to parallel work creating different versions that eventually will have to be merged together. However, our experience is that at present the support for model merge is far from optimal. In this paper, we put forward a number of requirements for practical merge tools, based on our analysis of literature, merge tool evaluations, interviews with developers, and a number of use cases for concurrent development of models. We found future work to do for both tool vendors and academic research.... (More)
- All the support tools that developers are used to must be in place, if the use of model-centric development in companies hits to take off. Industry deals with big models and many people working on the same model. Collaboration in a team inevitably leads to parallel work creating different versions that eventually will have to be merged together. However, our experience is that at present the support for model merge is far from optimal. In this paper, we put forward a number of requirements for practical merge tools, based on our analysis of literature, merge tool evaluations, interviews with developers, and a number of use cases for concurrent development of models. We found future work to do for both tool vendors and academic research. Fortunately we also uncovered a few tips and tricks that companies using model-centric development can implement on the short term while waiting for better times. (Less)
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- author
- Bendix, Lars LU and Emanuelsson, Par
- organization
- publishing date
- 2009
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- team coordination, parallel work, version control, Model merge, diff, industrial experience
- host publication
- Model Driven Engineering Languages And Systems, Proceedings
- volume
- 5795
- pages
- 167 - 180
- publisher
- Springer
- conference name
- 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
- conference location
- Denver, CO, United States
- conference dates
- 2009-10-04 - 2009-10-09
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- wos:000274189300012
- scopus:77249091894
- ISSN
- 0302-9743
- 1611-3349
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 42100e41-923a-446f-8d0f-28d610bf7fff (old id 1567989)
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abstract = {{All the support tools that developers are used to must be in place, if the use of model-centric development in companies hits to take off. Industry deals with big models and many people working on the same model. Collaboration in a team inevitably leads to parallel work creating different versions that eventually will have to be merged together. However, our experience is that at present the support for model merge is far from optimal. In this paper, we put forward a number of requirements for practical merge tools, based on our analysis of literature, merge tool evaluations, interviews with developers, and a number of use cases for concurrent development of models. We found future work to do for both tool vendors and academic research. Fortunately we also uncovered a few tips and tricks that companies using model-centric development can implement on the short term while waiting for better times.}},
author = {{Bendix, Lars and Emanuelsson, Par}},
booktitle = {{Model Driven Engineering Languages And Systems, Proceedings}},
issn = {{0302-9743}},
keywords = {{team coordination; parallel work; version control; Model merge; diff; industrial experience}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{167--180}},
publisher = {{Springer}},
title = {{Requirements for Practical Model Merge - An Industrial Perspective}},
volume = {{5795}},
year = {{2009}},
}