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A generic approach to supporting diagram differencing and merging for collaborative design

Akhil Mehra, John C. Grundy, John G. Hosking

Full textDOI 10.1145/1101908.1101940dblp

Abstract

Differentiation tools enable team members to compare two or more text files, e.g. code or documentation, after change. Although a number of general-purpose differentiation tools exist for comparing text documents very few tools exist for comparing diagrams. We describe a new approach for realising visual differentiation in CASE tools via a set of plug-in components. We have added diagram version control, visual differentiation and merging support as component-based plug-ins to the Pounamu meta-CASE tool. The approach is generic across a wide variety of diagram types and has also been deployed with an Eclipse diagramming plug-in. We describe our approach's architecture, key design and implementation issues, illustrate feasibility of our approach via implementation of it as plug-in components and evaluate its effectiveness.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehra-al:ASE05,
  author    = {Akhil Mehra and
               John C. Grundy and
               John G. Hosking},
  title     = {A generic approach to supporting diagram differencing and merging for collaborative design},
  booktitle = {ASE},
  pages     = {204--213},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2005},
}

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