P2P based collision solving technique for effective concurrency control in a collaborative development environment

Abstract

This paper provides a way to overcome the limitations of general collaborative software development tools that completely restrict co-ownership of resources among individuals in a team oriented developmental environment. It also provides a solution for users to co-own resources and at the same time manage version control and solve collision problems that may occur due to the co-ownership of resources. The collaborative software development tool presented in this paper is made up of the classical client/server structure with the P2P (peer to peer) method which supports information exchange among individuals. This tool is developed based on open source software CVS (Concurrent Version System). Functional efficiency was confirmed by comparing it to the utility of prior existing collaborative software development tools. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.