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A provisional notification of two events was given. Both will take place during the Fall/Autumn 1990. The 1st International Software Process Symposium will take place over two days in Tokyo, Japan. The 6th International Software Process Workshop, “Support for the Process”, will be in Kyoto, Japan. In the relatively short amount of time available the group touched on many important issues associated...
This paper gives a brief overview of the Alvey IPSE 2.5 project. This is a relatively large project investigating certain features of advanced environments supporting systems development activities. The paper concentrates particularly on the idea of process modelling whereby support can be given for the processes by which development activities are carried out.
Over the past decade, software productivity has been a major concern at TRW and a number of efforts to improve productivity have been undertaken. The development of Software Engineering Environments (SEEs) and their use on large projects has been central to the software productivity strategy. Those efforts include the Software Productivity Program which started in the early 1980s and constitute the...
Currently, an active research area is the design of formalisms for representing software process models and the underlying mechanisms for supporting their enaction. In the ALF project under the ESPRIT research programme, a formalism for modelling computer-assisted software processes, called the MASP concept, is being specified and a software engineering environment is being developed in order to support...
This paper presents how a process model for project management has been addressed by the PIMS project. The purpose of a goal oriented decomposition of human activities is presented: an activity is a means (the How to do it?) set to reach a goal (the What to do?). This approach has been used by PIMS for analysing the project management process and produced, on one hand, a set of goals and subgoals...
A conceptual architecture for software development environments (SDEs) is presented in terms of a new metaphor drawn from business enterprises. A metaphor is employed as the architecture is complex, requiring understanding from several perspectives. The metaphor provides a rich set of familiar concepts that strongly aid in understanding the environment architecture and software production. The metaphor...
This paper has described the various types of tool integration with the goal of illustrating how diverse tools can be effectively integrated into CASE environments. Issues of data integration, control integration, and presentation integration may be viewed as orthogonal and defining a three-dimensional space in which tool integration occurs. The absence of standards has been shown to be a barrier...
PCTE has become widely recognized as a basis for integrated project support environments. The PCTE specifications have progressed through PCTE+ and by the outcome of projects like PACT; now PCTE is going to be standardized by ECMA: now, PCTE has to be widely used by creating and porting cooperative tools which together can form highly integrated software engineering environment. The PCTE contribution...
The project ToolUse aims at providing means for active assistance in the design, implementation and evolution of software. This is achieved and supported by a formal development language called Deva. As Deva uses two-dimensional notations to get better structured and surveyable representations of developments, and as different Deva implementations have been used within the project, both internal and...
We defined an integrated environment as an ensemble of tools which collaborate in support of users' software engineering processes. We described a framework for software tool integration, together with architectural support for control integration (the Broadcast Message Server) and a mechanism (the Encapsulator) for integrating tools conforming to the UNIX “standard model”. Tools in the CASEdge framework...
In this paper the main components of PROSYT, a System Engineering Environment (SEE), are presented. PROSYT is a frame system including a dialog component (PRODIA) and a database component (PRODAT). The integration of different tools, which cover special aspects of the system life-cycle and which were not developed for working together, is done via the exchange of data using the non standard database...
This paper summarizes the discussions of the Object Management System (OMS) session at the Chinon Workshop. The session identified numerous capabilities which might be required in an OMS. The facilities which were agreed upon as essential to an OMS are presented in Section 1, OMS Core Facilities. A number of issues in the realization of these and other capabilities, influenced in part by specific...
This paper deals with group-oriented discretionary access controls (DAC) in object management systems (OMS). Group-oriented means that subgroup structures which are typical of the organization of design projects are supported. Group paradigms are interpretations of the subgroup structure. Examples of OMS with group-oriented DAC are CAIS-A and PCTE+. Both support a paradigm which we term the...
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