Differencing and Merging of Architectural Views Marwan Abi Antoun Jonathan Aldrich Nagi Nahas Bradley Schmerl David Garlan Institute for Software Research Intl Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA mabianto aldrich cs cmu edu nnahas acm org schmerl garlan cs cmu edu Abstract Existing approaches to differencing and merging architectural views are based on restrictive assump tions such as requiring view elements to have unique identifiers or exa
Differencing and Merging of Architectural Views Marwan Abi Antoun Jonathan Aldrich Nagi Nahas Bradley Schmerl and David Garlan Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA October 1 2007 Abstract Differencing and merging architectural views is an important activity in software engineering However existing approaches are still based on restrictive assumptions such as requiring view elements to have unique identifiers or exactly matching types which is often