To branch or not to branch

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 81-90

  Premraj, Rahul ^a   Tang, Antony ^a   Linssen, Nico ^b   Geraats, Hub ^b   Van Vliet, Hans ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Oce Technologies   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

agile development; branching; merging; software configuration management practice

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; BRANCHING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; IF THERE ARE; RECOMMENDED PRACTICE; SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT PRACTICE;

MANAGEMENT;

MERGING;

EID: 79960592281     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1987875.1987890     Document Type: Conference Paper

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