Assessing the value of branches with what-if analysis

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bird, Christian ^a   Zimmermann, Thomas ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

branch refactoring; branches; concurrent development; coordination; teams; what if analysis

Indexed keywords

BRANCHES; CONCURRENT DEVELOPMENT; COORDINATION; REFACTORINGS; TEAMS; WHAT-IF ANALYSIS;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84871325977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2393596.2393648     Document Type: Conference Paper

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