TITLE:
Matching Source Code Using Abstract Syntax Trees in Version Control Systems
AUTHORS:
Jonathan van den Berg, Hirohide Haga
KEYWORDS:
Version Control, Source Code Matching, Abstract Syntax Tree, Structured Representation
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.11 No.6,
June
29,
2018
ABSTRACT: Software projects are becoming larger and more complicated. Managing those projects is based on several software development methodologies. One of those methodologies is software version control, which is used in the majority of worldwide software projects. Although existing version control systems provide sufficient functionality in many situations, they are lacking in terms of semantics and structure for source code. It is commonly believed that improving software version control can contribute substantially to the development of software. We present a solution that considers a structural model for matching source code that can be used in version control.