Webdiff: A generic differencing service for software artifacts

Author

Tsantalis, Nikolaos ; Negara, Natalia ; Stroulia, Eleni

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

25-30 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

586

Lastpage

589

Abstract

Software evolution analysis plays an important role in several software engineering activities which are mainly related to maintenance tasks. For this purpose, several approaches and tools have been developed to identify and analyze code changes throughout the history of a software system. However, most existing tools are restricted to a specific type of software artifact, are language-dependent and can only be locally executed on a client machine. To overcome these limitations we propose WebDiff, a web-based generic differencing service for various types of software artifacts including source code and UML diagrams.

Keywords

Internet; Unified Modeling Language; software maintenance; software tools; UML diagrams; Web-based generic differencing service; WebDiff; software artifact; software engineering; software evolution analysis; software system; software tools; source code; Navigation; Servers; Software; Software algorithms; Unified modeling language; XML; design evolution; differencing techniques; software analysis; web-based tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2011 27th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Williamsburg, VI

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0663-9

Electronic_ISBN

1063-6773

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2011.6080836

Filename

6080836