An analysis on Version Control Systems

Managing the source code of the project and other related documents in an organization is a mandatory need, which may ensure clarity in the delivery of the product enhancing the focus of the organization towards its intended product’s quality. In this digital era of computing, we have many software configuration management tools to handle various documents, its revisions, versions and so. In this paper, we analyze the importance of various Version Control Systems (VCS) evolved to assist the software development lifecycle of the project, and compare favourite VCS tools in the market based on their features, measure their performance across chosen attribute. Also, we propose a new tool having some of the best features found in our comparison study as well as a few extra attributes that we believe will raise the quality of this new tool. This tools can combat the issues we face with existing tools in the market.