CVSyn - acoplando um mecanismo de notificação síncrono ao CVS para otimizar a comunicação no desenvolvimento global de software.

Abstract

Global Software Development is an approach that requires a lot of investment, over all with technology. In this context, the small and medium sized organizations are those that suffer the impacts caused by physical separation of their teams and the gaps in their communication the most. As not always the used tools facilitate the understanding of the changes that happen during the application evolution, much misunderstanding is generated, and consequently, much re-work. This work points the importance of tools of version control, marking collaborative aspects that can aid the process of code production and integration in the presence of collaborators geographically distributed. A tool was proposed and a prototype was implemented based in CVS and an event notification server. The objective of CVsyn is to allow that the communication (sharing of information) among the collaborators of the project can be improved through a mechanism of notification.