Software Engineering Environments: International Workshop on Environments Chinon, France, September 18–20, 1989 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Fred Long, Mike Tedd (auth.), Fred Long (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 307
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 467
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume gives the proceedings of an international workshop on software engineering environments and public tool interfaces. The workshop drew together the recognized experts in these fields from Europe and America. The workshop examined the mechanisms necessary to support the software process and some formalisms for software modeling and considered which mechanisms and capabilities are feasible in the short term. Important here are the communication and coordination requirements of teams of people, especially information flow and access issues and the characterization of project and organization structure that interact with these. Some recent work on "long" transactions is included here. There was discussion of how tools obtain access to services provided by other tools in the environment and how they communicate and exchange information. The workshop considered the trade-off between ease of interoperability and the modification of existing tools. Data typing and structuring models present a significant challenge. Included here is the experience of using actual models and an analysis of "persistence". The users of an environment may act in various roles and the needs of each type of user vary. Discussions centered on designs of environment mechanisms to support the user interface, including the issues of uniformity and performance.

✦ Table of Contents

Summary....Pages 1-5
Report on the process session at chinon....Pages 7-12
An introduction to the IPSE 2.5 project....Pages 13-24
TRW's SEE sage....Pages 25-55
MASP: A model for assisted software processes....Pages 57-67
Goal oriented decomposition — Its application for process modelling in the PIMS project....Pages 69-76
A metaphor and a conceptual architecture for software development environments....Pages 77-97
Configuration management with the NSE....Pages 99-106
Experiments with rule based process modelling in an SDE....Pages 107-114
Principles of a reference model for computer aided software engineering environments....Pages 115-129
An overview of the inscape environment....Pages 131-135
Tool integration in software engineering environments....Pages 137-149
The PCTE contribution to Ada programming support environments (APSE)....Pages 151-166
The Tooluse approach to integration....Pages 167-178
An experimental Ada programming support environment in the HP CASEdge integration framework....Pages 179-193
Experience and conclusions from the system engineering environment prototype PROSYT ....Pages 195-201
Issues in designing object management systems....Pages 203-209
Experiencing the next generation computing environment....Pages 211-217
Group paradigms in discretionary access controls for object management systems....Pages 219-233
Typing in an object management system (OMS)....Pages 235-250
Environment object management technology: Experiences, opportunities and risks....Pages 251-260
Towards formal description and automatic generation of programming environments....Pages 261-270
Use and extension of PCTE : The SPMMS information system....Pages 271-282
User interface session....Pages 283-286
CENTAUR: Towards a “software tool box” for programming environments....Pages 287-304
List of participants....Pages 305-313

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering