In collaborative software development, merge conflicts arise when developers integrate
concurrent code changes. Practitioners seek to minimize the number of merge conflicts …

Branching and merging are common practices in collaborative software development. They
increase developer productivity by fostering teamwork, allowing developers to …

With the rise of social coding platforms that rely on distributed version control systems,
software reuse is also on the rise. Many software developers leverage this reuse by creating …

Context: The success of Open Source Software (OSS) projects typically depends on
simultaneous contributions of several developers. These contributions often affect the same …

Developers rely on branching and forking mechanisms of modern versioning systems to
evolve and maintain their software systems. As a result, systems often exist in the form of …

While modern merge techniques, such as 3-way and structured merge, can resolve textual
conflicts automatically, they fail when the conflict arises not at the syntactic, but at the …

Customization is a general trend in software engineering, demanding systems that support
variable stakeholder requirements. Two opposing strategies are commonly used to create …

Collaborative development is an essential practice for the success of most nontrivial
software projects. However, merge conflicts might occur when a developer integrates …

We will now look at the application of MDSE for so-called software product lines—portfolios
of software variants in a particular application domain. We will discuss the systematic …

Feature model integration is pivotal in software development, particularly in evolving
software product lines through new feature accommodations. Despite its significance, the …