Models of software development environments

Industrial Strength Software Development Environments

‘‘Industrial strength’’ software development environments (SDEs) must provide facilities to address three essential properties of multi-developer software systems: evolution, complexity and scale. It is my contention that in order to be an industrial strength SDE, an environment must support at least a city model environment. Moreover, SDEs must include such high level policies as supporting co...

A Survey of Software Development Environments

Models of scientific software development

Over the past decade, I have performed several field studies with scientists developing software either on their own or together with software engineers. Based on these field study data, I identify a model of scientific software development as practiced in many scientific laboratories and communities. This model does not fit the standard software engineering models. For example, the tasks of re...

General Object-Based Environments: An Engine for Software Development Environments

In order to obtain better software development environments more emphasis must be put on providing proper support for all the activities of the development life-cycle. An environment must be able to structure information and automate the programmer’s tasks. We propose a new kind of framework to support Programmingin-the-Large as well as Programming-in-the-Many. This is based on an analysis of t...

Scaling Up Rule-Based Software Development Environments

Rule-based software development environments (RBDEs) model the software development process in terms of rules that encapsulate development activities, and assist in executing the process via forward and backward chaining over the rule base. We investigate the scaling up of RBDEs to support (1) multiple views of the rule base for multiple users and (2) evolution of the rule base over the lifetim...