AUGUSTA A reuse-oriented Software Engineering Environment for the Development of Ada-Applications

Increasingly complex demands on functionality and quality of software systems along with the lack of qualified staff require a fundamental change in the software development process. A shift from personnel intensive individual software development to capital intensive industrial software production must take place. This could only be achieved by utilizing tools supporting the development process and by planned design and production of generally applicable and reusable components. The AUGUSTA system (Ada Units Generalization Utility and Systems Tailoring Assistant) concentrates on the aspect of reusability. It allows the instantiation of programs from generic components and the compostion of complete application systems based on an equally generic application structure. Furthermore, the AUGUSTA approach postulates a special process model including a particular concept for user roles according to their experience and tasks in the software construction process.