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Palantir: Early Detection Of Development Conflicts Arising From Parallel Code Changes, Anita Sarma, D F. Redmiles, Andre Van Der Hoek

School of Computing: Faculty Publications

The earlier a conflict is detected, the easier it is to resolve—this is the main precept of workspace awareness. Workspace awareness seeks to provide users with information of relevant ongoing parallel changes occurring in private workspaces, thereby enabling the early detection and resolution of potential conflicts. The key approach is to unobtrusively inform developers of potential conflicts arising because of concurrent changes to the same file and dependency violations in ongoing parallel work. This paper describes our research goals, approach, and implementation of workspace awareness through Palantır and includes a comprehensive evaluation involving two laboratory experiments. We present both quantitative …