Software versioning in the cloud : towards automatic source code management

• Main Authors: Gioachin, Filippo, Liang, Qianhui, Yao, Yuxia, Lee, Bu-Sung
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Data
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100730; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16305
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

With the introduction of cloud computing and Web 2.0, many applications are moving to the cloud environment. Version control systems have also taken a first step towards this direction. Nevertheless, existing systems are either client-server oriented or completely distributed, and they don’t match exactly the nature of the cloud. In this paper we propose a new cloud version control system focusing on the requirements imposed by cloud computing, that we identified as: concurrent editing, history rewrite, accountability, scalability, security, and fault tolerance. Our plan is to tackle these issues in a systematic way, and we present in this paper an overview of the solutions organized in three separate layers: access API, logical structure, and physical storage.